Twin Cities Code Camp will be hitting the University of Minnesota Campus again next month. This is a biannual event in the Twin Cities where developers can get together and show their code. An opportunity to see what other people are doing and to exchange ideas. The event is on Saturday and Sunday on the … Continue reading Twin City Code Camp 10 Is Coming
Over the last few years, I’ve blogged about and spoke at the SSWUG Virtual Conferences. It’s that time of the year again, and the next virtual conference is coming up in a few short weeks. The event will be on April 20-22 and you can attend from the comforts of your home or office. If … Continue reading SSWUG DBTechCon Coming Up
If you’re looking for a day of training in the Twin Cities, then check out Benchmark Learning’s 2011 TechFuse event. The event features eight tracks of sessions from infrastructure and developer topics to, of course, SQL Server topics. The event is on March 17, 2011 at Mystic Lake Casino – if you are interested in … Continue reading TechFuse 2011 – This Month
This past Wednesday I took a drive down to the Iowa SQL Server Users Group meeting. It was a bit of a drive but I got a chance to hang out with a fellow Digineerian on the way there and talk about solutions. I really enjoyed the meeting. There were probably 40 people at the … Continue reading Iowa PASS Presentation Materials
Last week I spoke at the PASSMN meeting here in Minnesota and then via a webcast to the Edmonton PASS chapter. For both nights the presentations seemed to go fairly well – especially given the e-mail requests for the presentation materials after the events. PASSMN Meeting Session: Error Logs and Deadlocks, Oh My Tired of … Continue reading Presentations Materials From Last Week
Will you be in Edmonton today? How about near a computer connected to the inter-tubes? If so, you might be interested in joining the EDMPASS January user group meeting. Colin Stasiuk (Blog | @BenchmarkIT) invited me to join the meeting today. The details for the meeting are Start Time: Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011 6:00 PM … Continue reading Presenting on #SSIS to EDMPASS Today
If you are up in Edmonton around January 26th, you can hear my voice at the EDMPASS January user group meeting. Colin Stasiuk (Blog | @BenchmarkIT) invited me to join the meeting and I’ll be presenting on SSIS to their group. It seems to be good timing since I have the 31 Days of SSIS … Continue reading Speaking at EDMPASS This Month
Have you taken the time to plan a fall get-away for some free SQL Server training? You can do this through some of the one-day SQL Server training event happening across the country. These are great opportunities to learn more about SQL Server and network with your peers that are using it every day. Whether … Continue reading SQL Saturday Glory
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter today at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Using XML to Query Execution Plans. The abstract for the event is the following: SQL Server stores its execution plans as XML in dynamic management views. The execution plans are a gold mine of … Continue reading Webcast Today – Using XML to Query Execution Plans
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter next week. It’ll be on July 28 at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Using XML to Query Execution Plans. The abstract for the event is the following: SQL Server stores its execution plans as XML in dynamic management views. The execution … Continue reading Webcast Next Week – Using XML to Query Execution Plans
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