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One Week Until Louisville!

KKline — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:04:00 GMT

Louisville has a special place in my heart because it was my brother's home for more than 15 years. I spent a lot of time on I-65 traveling from my home town of Huntsville, AL to visit my bro in Louisville and New Albany, after he bought a place on the north side of the mighty Ohio River. It's always felt like a home away from home, even long after he moved on.

SQL Saturday 122 is just around the corner and I'll be speaking both in a full day, pre-conference seminar plus a couple sessions at the SQL Saturday itself.

Leadership Skills for the IT Professional

My pre-con is all about learning the essential leadership skills to lead IT people. It's designed for IT technologists who've been promoted into a leadership role and find that their technology skills don't readily transfer into leading people. Details for the class and registration are available here at Leadership Skills for IT Professionals. As is traditional at IT conferences, professional development classes don't get as much attendance as the hard technology classes. So, please spread the word to other IT leaders in your organizations and help me fill the class. It's fully applicable to other IT disciplines besides DBAs and Developers, so tell your Exchange admins, HelpDesk bosses, and others.

If you're interested in the topic, but can't attend for some reason, consider purchasing my DVD set and/or the streaming media. Get the details here for the vConference and DVDs on Leadership Skills for the IT Professional.

SQL Saturday 122 Sessions

I'll be presenting in a few sessions at the SQL Saturday itself, including my popular session SQL Server Internals and Architecture. I'll also be sitting in the Women In Technology panel at lunch, filling the 'token male' quota and offering my perspective as the dad of three daughters and three step-daughters urging them on to bigger and better things. Right after that, I'll be presenting one module of my leadership training called Communicating Upward, which is all about influencing your boss and your boss' boss.

Please spread the word. I hope to see you there! Enjoy,

-Kev

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SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization in Jacksonville, FL on April 27th

KKline — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:15:00 GMT

One last reminder - If you're interested in learning more about troubleshooting and optimizing SQL Server performance, please consider coming to the full-day seminar I'll be giving this Friday. Full details are here: http://sqlperftuning.eventbrite.com/. We'll be working some exercises, so bring your laptop with an instance of SQL Server 2008 (or later) running on it. It'll be fun!

I also encourage you to come on down to SQL Saturday 130 the following day - whether there's an official registration for you or not. (But don't tell 'em I said that). :^)

Come by the booth for a visit. I'll be hanging out most of the day and have some nice swag to give away.

Enjoy,

-Kev

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April Omnibus

KKline — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:20:00 GMT

I freely admit it - I'm a sluggard. I should be blogging a couple times per week and tweeting in between. But, for some unknown reason, April has been a tough month to get this in gear. Hence, I'm putting out an omnibus post to cover all of the stuff I've been up to, instead of the one-off's I usually post when I've got something new to mention.

Isn't it funny how life gets in the way of the stuff we want and intend to do? As they say - "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", or was that Detroit? But I digress.

A New Translation!

I don't like to toot my own horn. [sarcasm on] You can tell that I'm completely honest when I say that since I have a couple blogs and a twitter account. [sarcasm off] But one thing I'm really proud of is how popular SQL in a Nutshell is. It's now translated into approximately eight languages, with Russian being the newest language:

I'm even more proud of my lil' girl than that book!

I also had the pleasure of working with another translator and I'm looking forward to having a copy of the book in simplified Chinese soon too!

Lots of Speaking Events Coming!

There will be more details on my Events page soon, but here's the run down on what's just around the corner:

May 4; recording a spot for TechNet Radio
May 13-14; Louisville, KY; Stored Procedure Best Practices
May 20; 24 Hours of PASS; Top 10 Mistakes on SQL Server
May 22; Indianapolis, IN; SQL Server Internals & Architecture
June 7-11; Microsoft TechEd Conference in New Orleans, LA; Birds of a Feather and Ask The Experts
June 23; Knoxville, TN; ditto the Indy event
Aug 5-7; DevLink in Nashville, TN; several sessions throughout the conference

I also have three "Pain of the Week" webcasts schedule with Quest over the next couple months, with great co-hosts like Buck Woody and Grant Fritchey. The sessions aren't officially scheduled yet, but you can find them here.

Also, a big thanks to the local PASS chapter in Houston for the warm welcome they put out when I spoke there on April 12 and to the fine folks in Chicago for their awesome SQL Saturday on April 17th.

New Articles and Session Recordings

I had a couple new articles come out last month which I either wrote or added commentary too, including Master Data Services could spur SQL Server 2008 R2 migrations appearing at SearchSQLServer.com.

The PASS DBA Virtual Chapter just posted a recording of my session on SQL Server Internals and Architecture.

I made an appearance on Microsoft's Thrive website as their IT Pro of the Month for March. I also had the opportunity to work with Steve Wynkoop at his SSWUG.org vConference in March.

And don't forget about the incredibly popular Quest vConference that Brent, Ari, and I did on troubleshooting and performance tuning using SQL Server DMV's. You can get the code samples, download the slides, and rate the presentations at http://questkb.com/live and/or http://www.vconferenceonline.com/shows/spring10/quest/conference/ondemand.asp