The question was posed on Twitter recently (or perhaps more along the lines of “why can’t we”), suggesting that our current/default hashtags of something like #sqlsat151 might be more useful and more marketing friendly as #sqlsatorl or #sqlsatorlando. I thought I’d share some thoughts in longer form than Twitter allows, keeping in mind that Kendal […]
Read more "Should We Customize the SQLSaturday Hashtag on Twitter?"Back in February I did a presentation for MagicPASS that ran long, maybe 30 minutes over the time allotted. It annoyed me to be so far off, but overall the group seemed ok with continuing and so we did. I thought about it some then, but it wasn’t until I saw someone else do it […]
Read more "Presentations That Exceed The Allotted Time"If there is anything better than a SQLSaturday it’s a SQLSaturday with a choice of great pre-con speakers. This year we’re pleased to have Stacia Misner and Kevin Kline presenting all day sessions on Friday September 28th. Spend the day with either of them for $99. Ask the boss, even beg, and if they say […]
Read more "Stacia Misner and Kevin Kline Doing All Day Sessions for SQLSaturday #151"Quick notes from the MagicPASS meeting: Kendal Van Dyke still the king when it comes to explaining what’s going on with community, SQL, and even Windows 8 (if only he still blogged!) Dinner was macaroni and cheese with ham, salad, and chocolate cookies. No same old pizza here! Jose Chincilla (@SQLJoe) presented PowerPivot + Power […]
Read more "Notes from the July 2012 MagicPASS Meeting"Most applications connect on whatever the default port is, typically 1433 for SQL, though it’s common to change that to something non-standard as part of security efforts – making it just a different port that all SQL traffic uses. From a pure SQL perspective that’s fine. We can usually identify traffic using Profiler via application […]
Read more "Should Apps Use a Dedicated Port?"I’ll be back on the road again in August, heading up to Cleveland for SQLSaturday #164. It’s my first time in Cleveland and I’m looking forward to seeing a new city and meeting some new people.
Read more "Attending SQLSaturday #164 in Cleveland"I’m a little late posting this, but I had two sessions accepted out of four I submitted. I’ll be doing Building Your Professional Development Plan which is a tweak of the session I’ve done the last few years (and which gets very good comments!) and a brand new one, Learn About The Mentoring Experiment. Both […]
Read more "I’ll Be Presenting at the PASS Summit 2012"Nine more speakers we’re pleased to say will be joining us for a fabulous SQLSaturday in Orlando! Timothy McAliley Juan Soto Erika Bakse Jose Rivera Tom Brenneman Kevin Kline Craig Purnell David Eichner Luis Figueroa
Read more "Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-The Monday List"Overall I find the site to be useful and responsive, but sometimes I see small things that I wish were different, or wish were there, so I’m sharing the ones I’ve noticed lately – maybe they’ll make it on to the backlog! Schedule Page. Before the ‘real’ schedule is built this displays a list of […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Site Wish List"More speakers from Florida! Scott Klein lives in Seattle now, but we still consider him an honorary Floridian according to Rule 7, section B of the Orlando speaker selection guidelines. You’ll note we also have two speakers who have elected to conceal their faces on LinkedIn, we don’t know yet if they will be wearing […]
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