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I always enjoy spending time with my friends from Atlanta, as well as meeting folks and making new friends. If you live in the Atlanta area, I hope you'll join me on the evening of Wednesday, February 9th, 2011.  Details are at the &lt;a href="http://www.atlantamdf.com" title="What's with the &amp;quot;MDF&amp;quot;?" target="_blank"&gt;Atlanta SQL Server user group website&lt;/a&gt;.
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It's common knowledge that I have a terrible memory for many things.  However, one of the few things that my memory is usually really good at is remember names &amp;amp; faces (and remembering stories, but that is another story as well).

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's only in the last couple years that I've gotten to know Atlanta-area folks like Aaron Nelson (&lt;a href="http://sqlvariant.com" title="Better than &amp;quot;sqldeviant&amp;quot;" target="_blank"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sqlvariant" title="Better than &amp;quot;sqldeviant&amp;quot;" target="_blank"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;), at left.  Aaron likes to tease me because the first time or two we talked after our initial introduction, I kept getting his name wrong.  That's uncharacteristic of me.  But, hey, I was distracted because Aaron had brought his 12 year old daughter along and I kept wishing that I'd brought mine!  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aaron has really good content on SQL Server and PowerShell on his blog and in his presentations.  Don't miss out!&amp;nbsp;

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://kevinekline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Kevin-and-Stuart-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kevinekline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Kevin-and-Stuart-2-300x224.jpg" class="size-medium wp-image-1526" title="Kevin and Stuart 2" alt="" height="224" width="300"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another person in the Atlanta area I've enjoyed getting to know better is Stuart Ainsworth (&lt;a href="http://codegumbo.com" title="A delicious gumbo of, um, code" target="_blank"&gt;blog &lt;/a&gt;| &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/stuarta" title="He's got a picture of a gator on his website" target="_blank"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;).  Stuart has really stepped up to the plate these last couple years as a leader and a volunteer.  I'm really impressed with his efforts, especially because they're in very important but rather invisible and thankless tasks.  One example is his work in succession governance for &lt;a href="http://www.sqlpass.org" title="The Professional Assocation for SQL Server" target="_blank"&gt;PASS&lt;/a&gt;.  Stuart, I salute you and thank you for your efforts.

I hope to see y'all there!  And if I don't, y'all come up and visit us in Nashville some time.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheers,

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Kev

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