Notes from SQLSaturday #227 in Charleston

My first time in Charleston! Quick notes: Made the drive with the family in 7 hours, not bad, and easily the least stressful long driving trip we’ve done – kids getting older does help! Nice low key dinner Friday night at the Noisy Oyster Wingate hotel right next to Charleston Southern University was a good […]

Presenting PCI for the SQL DBA on August 8, 2013

I’ll be doing my PCI for the SQL DBA presentation on August 8th at 1 pm Eastern for the PASS Security Virtual Chapter. Visit the chapter page for more info, or you can register directly for the webinar. Hope you’ll attend!

PCI Compliance Presentation on July 17, 2013

Next week I’ll be doing a new presentation about PCI compliance – aka dealing with credit cards – online (follow this link for free registration). My goal is to put PCI in perspective for DBA’s, starting with a quick overview of what PCI is, then discussing how audits work, and then some information about what […]

Presenting at SQLSaturday #231 in Cocoa Beach

I’ll be attending the very first SQLSaturday held in Cocoa Beach on July 27, 2013, and doing a brand new presentation, PCI for the SQL DBA. If you store, plan to store, or think you might some day store credit card information come spend an hour with me. I’ll try to talk you out of […]

Notes from SQLSaturday #200

My first time in Philadelphia (and in Malvern, the actual event location). I drove up Friday night for the speaker dinner, nice seating area on the restaurant patio and hot enough to make me think I was still in Florida! Nice evening. I drove back to Philly to my hotel, and then drove back to […]

Speaking Tomorrow Night at MagicPASS

I’ll be driving south a few miles tomorrow night to talk to the great group at MagicPASS about the basics of statistics in SQL Server – what they are, how they can help (or hurt) performance, and how to maintain them. I’m looking forward to it, hope to see you there!

Notes from My 24 Hours of PASS Presentation

Quick notes: Because it was scheduled for 7 am local I decided to do it from home. Good plan, except it meant the kids had to be out the door on time so I’d have quiet. Just barely got that done with more than the usual ruckus. Not the best for getting to the zen […]

Schedule Announced for SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando

We had 45 speakers submit sessions this year. Sticking to our tradition here in Orlando, we accepted as many speakers as we could – all of them. We like the diversity and networking that happens with a large number of speakers and we’re lucky enough to have attendance levels high enough that every session will […]

I’ll Be Presenting at the PASS Summit 2012

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 […]

SQLRally 2012 Eval Scores

I was just browsing the results of the presentations at SQLRally 2012. I ended up with a evaluation average of 1.13 (on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being good) for the one I did on professional development. To put that in perspective the highest rating for a session was 1.02 and the […]

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