Crazy Week Next Week–SQLRally and SQL Saturday Birmingham

drsql — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:50:16 GMT

A lot of my time lately has been spent getting ready for next week and I hope to see you there. First up SQL Rally.

On Wednesday, I will be doing a pre-con session on Database Design. I have already blogged about it here, and I am definitely excited about it. There are still seats available, and I will be giving away a few goodies including my new design book (though it won’t yet be printed, I will get it to attendees), several of my, Tim Ford and Glenn Berry’s DMV books from RedGate, and who know what else I might have in my bag (Apress is sending me a lot of swag to give away during the conference too).

Friday (last session of the conference), I will be presenting my new session entitled Sequences (What They Are and Are Not). This session is a great departure from my typical presentation. I typically do 95% slides, and sometimes 100% slides. In this presentation I currently have 17 slides, and that will only change to include a bit more contact information. I have a lot of code using sequences in multiple ways, including racing them against identities and different caching levels.

After the rally ends, I will hop in my yellow Focus and make the following delightful journey:

Assuming traffic is kind to me and Bing’s time estimates are reasonably correct, a bit over 9 hours of driving and a night in a Hampton Inn to be named later and I should arrive at Birmingham’s SQL Saturday event.

Sounds insane right? Well, yeah, it kinda does. But I wanted to make their event again this year, and it was just a couple of hours out of my way back to Nashville. You may also think it sound like a bit of vanity, and it isn’t really. Assuming traffic is favorable, my hope is that I can arrive for the 2:00 sessions by Chris Price on Data Quality (or Kevin Boles on Column Store Indexes), Sven Aelterman’s session on File Tables as well before my 4:30 session on Sequences. Obviously if traffic is bad it might turn out that I only make my own session, but even then I plan to hang out for the after event so it won’t be a total loss.

In any case, hope to see you all in Dallas or Birmingham next week!

My Fall Speaking Schedule

AaronBertrand — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:58:00 GMT

SQL Saturday #84 : Kalamazoo, MI : September 17th

I will be giving two sessions at SQL Saturday #84 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. One is on "What's New in SQL Server Denali" and the other, "T-SQL : Bad Habits to Kick," is basically a summary of my "Bad Habits to Kick" blog series.

SQL Bits 9 : Liverpool, England : September 29th - October 1st

At the end of September, I will be presenting the same two sessions, What's New in Denali (engine and tools) and T-SQL: Bad Habits to Kick, at SQL Bits 9 ("Query Across the Mersey") in Liverpool.

In addition to these sessions, I will also be presenting a vendor session along with Steve Wright (@SQL_Steve) entitled, "Real Time and Historical Performance Troubleshooting with SQL Sentry."

PASS Community Summit : Seattle, WA : October 11th - 14th

In October, I will be presenting these same sessions (What's New in Denali and Bad Habits to Kick) in Seattle, WA at the annual PASS Community Summit.

SQL Sentry is proud to be sponsoring the Quiz Bowl this year - this can't-miss event runs Tuesday, October 11th, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. See our Facebook page for prize details!

Also, all SQL Server MVPs on site should be ready to sign SQL Server MVP Deep Dives volume 2, which will be hot off the press and ready for sale. I'll have a separate post about that when more details are available.

SQL Rally Nordic : Stockholm, Sweden : November 8th - 9th

I will be presenting my Bad Habits to Kick session at SQL Rally Nordic in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Crazy Week Next Week–SQLRally and SQL Saturday Birmingham

My Fall Speaking Schedule