Welcome to the first of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors that enabled us to have our Minnesota event. First … Continue reading SQL Saturday 99 – Quest Interview
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers back to the forefront to share what has already been shared. If you have some free time or interest, check out the links below from years past to see what you may have missed. … Continue reading Re-blog – November 18 – November 24
Last Friday, Minnesota had it’s second SQL Saturday event, on a Friday. Hopefully, those that were able to attend had a good time. In total, we gave out 320 attendee bags. Between speakers and sponsors, there were probably a few more that didn’t pick up bags… so in total we likely had 350 attendees for … Continue reading Thank You SQL Saturday 99 Sponsors!
Stuff me in a wood chipper, I have an idea. And this idea involves Fargo, Fargo, and SQL Saturday. As many of you know, for the past two years, I’ve been one of the volunteers working with the Minnesota PASS chapter and working on their SQL Saturday events (58 & 99). At the end of … Continue reading Fargo, Fargo and SQL Saturday
If you are looking for a little training on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) without having to leave the comforts of your cubicle – this is your week. This Friday (11/19/2011), SSWUG will be hosting an expo titled “Building and Developing with SQL Server Integration Services”. The event will consist of four sessions that will … Continue reading SSWUG SSIS Expo Event This Friday
I’ve been a bit busy while planning this year’s SQL Saturday in Minnesota. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a lot of updates on our upcoming event. On the plus side, I got married, had a honeymoon, and attended the best PASS Summit ever. If you haven’t started thinking about it, check out the discounts on … Continue reading A Bit of a SQL Saturday 99 Update…
I’ll be posting a summit wrap-up after I return next week from my honeymoon. Until then, though, I wanted to make sure that anyone that wanted them, had the materials I used in my presentation. [download id="50"] Execution plans are stored after execution in the plan cache. This metadata about how queries are executed can … Continue reading PASS Summit 2011 Session Materials
Since I put up the lyrics for “SQL and I Know It”, it only makes sense to continue the tradition and give you all the lyrics for the latest song. Of course, this is questionably “music” but at least they entertain me. When I first started doing all of these posts, this was actually the … Continue reading Lyrics for “Hold On”
A couple weeks back, I drove out to Madison to present at the MADPASS user group. These guys have a great setup for recording and broadcasting their meetings. Unfortunately, my laptop did not cooperate with the event and the broadcast of my session didn’t go so well. To help get the content out there, I’ll … Continue reading MADPASS Follow-Up
I’ve been meaning to follow-up with links to the presentations that I delivered at SQL Saturday 98. It’s a few weeks late, but they are all now uploaded to the SQL Saturday site. If you don’t want to go there, you can get this here as well: [download id="5"] [download id="8"] [download id="48"] I had … Continue reading SQL Saturday 98 Follow-Up
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