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 […]

Notes from SQLSaturday #232 in Orlando

Our seventh annual SQLSaturday here in Orlando went well. To the casual observer it might appear to happen without effort, if only that were truly the case! Kudos to Shawn and Karla for a great job of leading the event and we couldn’t have done it without the help of volunteers either. Now, on to […]

Notes From The August 2012 OPASS Meeting

Luis Figueroa did a nice job presenting on Master Data Management. It’s nice to see the tools evolving, though I’ll confess to thinking that MDM is one of those dreams that is rarely achieved in most organizations. Jen Underwood did a presentation on predictive analytics. Lots of good background on the terminology, nice demos, and […]

SQLSaturday Numbers For Period Ending June 30, 2013

Just saw this in the PASS Connector: The SQLSaturday numbers are in for our fiscal year, which ended June 30, with a total of 81 SQLSaturday events (49 US/32 international) compared to 61 events (37 US/24 international) the previous year. That feels like good, sustainable growth. I hope the trend continues!

Five Weeks Until SQLSaturday #232 In Orlando

Time has flown by and we’re just five weeks from SQLSaturday #232 on September 14th, 2013. It’s a time of excitement and a bit of chaos for those of us on the organizing team. We’re trying to finalize the budget, order shirts for the speakers, get evaluation cards printed, and all the rest of the […]

Notes from SQLSaturday #231

First time event in Cocoa Beach went really well! Speaker dinner well attended Friday night at Florida’s Seafood Quite a few out of town speakers, and it seemed like more speakers brought their families. Having the event at a hotel on the beach certainly made it What are the odds – the speaker shirt (red […]

Headed to Cocoa for SQLSaturday #231

I’m leaving mid-morning today to drive to Cocoa with my family for a beach weekend and SQLSaturday #231. I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA and I’m really looking forward to it. I did a virtual presentation of it earlier this month and it ran long, so I’ve made some adjustments and can’t wait […]

Speakers Announced for SQLSaturday #232 in Orlando

It’s done, finally! The sessions for SQLSaturday #232 have been selected and the schedule is available for viewing. We have 8 tracks this year, 6 slots per track, for a whopping 48 sessions this year. It’s an amazing list of speakers – go take a look, you’ll see! If you’re attending, or haven’t made up […]

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 […]