Another week down and there are now 3-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. Take a moment and register now if you haven’t. It’s really easy to do, click on the banner below and enter your information and your manager’s credit card information. She called me earlier today, go ahead and do it. No, really… This … Continue reading PASS 2011 Countdown – 3 Weeks To Go
If you are going to be in Kalamazoo this weekend and don’t have anything planned. Because, yeah, that happens. Or if you are going the the SQL Saturday this weekend in Kalamazoo, much more likely. Well… don’t get to next Monday morning and realize that you forgot about it. If you will happen to be … Continue reading SQL Saturday in Kalamazoo This Weekend
One week down and we are now 4-weeks from this years PASS Summit. Hopefully, you have already registered for the summit. If not, let’s get that out of the way first by clicking on the image below… If you aren’t convinced and haven’t registered yet, take a look at the following: StrateSQL - The PASS … Continue reading PASS 2011 Countdown – 4 Weeks To Go
We are now 5-weeks from this years PASS Summit. It’s time to start getting ready for the event. Hopefully, you have already registered for the summit. If not, let’s get that out of the way first by clicking on the image below… With that done, the hardest part of preparing for PASS is complete. Everything … Continue reading PASS 2011 Countdown – 5 Weeks To Go
One of the things that makes PASS a successful organization is the volunteers. To show it’s appreciation for these volunteers, each year PASS awards the PASSion Award to a volunteer. Before PASS can do that, though, there is a nominations process to make sure that the people in the community let PASS know who they … Continue reading PASSion Award Nominations
As some of you may know, I am writing a book on indexing. So far I’ve written and submitted four of the chapters to the publisher. If anyone ever says, “Writing a book is easy” – kick them. When they tell you – “it’s really hard” you might want to have them kick you. Writing … Continue reading Book Status #1: Indexing for Performance
This spring I presented a few sessions at the spring SSWUG virtual conference – DBTechCon. Now that the event is over, I’ve received some feedback from the attendees and I thought I’d share it here. Overall, the responses back were great. The approach for the Profiler versus Extended Events session didn’t seem to come across … Continue reading SSWUG Spring Conference Speaker Ratings
Tomorrow is time for part two of my presentations this month on Extended Events for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter. If you missed the first part of this series, you can watch it before hand here. Below are the details on the event and the session description… Extended Events, Work Smarter Not Harder – Part … Continue reading PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Tomorrow
It appears I was fortunate enough to be selected to speak at the 2011 PASS Summit. This is shaping up to be a rock solid summit this year. The day before the summit is my birthday, I get to speak at the summit, and then afterwards on to my honeymoon with Sarah (Blog | @DanceM0m). … Continue reading Speaking At The PASS Summit
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