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Did You Know? It's SQL Know How!

Kalen Delaney — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:05:00 GMT

I am very excited to be part of a new SQL Server Training Group, which was organized in the UK by 4 SQL Server MVPs (current and former). I know this is a shameless plug, but I am not apologizing. I am actually going to the UK for the benefit of the SQLKnowHow guys, and I'm just trying to help them out even more by telling you all about their events!

SQLKnowHow has been offering one day seminars and multi-day training events since last summer, and my first event with them will in early November.

This is, of course, not my first trip to the UK, or my first time speaking at an event organized by my friend Tony Rogerson, founder of the (in)famous and awesome UK SQL Server Community.

The venue is in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, which I happen to know well, because that is where Tony lives, along with his wonderful wife and his amazing little boy. In truth, I am actually looking forward to seeing Tony's son even more than Tony. (After all, I can see Tony at conferences, and can communicate by email whenever I need to. Plus (sorry Tony), his son is much cuter.)

Now that the previous event with Paul Nielsen has completed, seats are starting to fill fast for my seminars. I am presenting two one-day seminars and a three-day course:

3 November: SQL Server Data Storage Formats: Internals, Performance and Best Practices
(I have just finished writing the chapter for my next book on all the cool new storage, with compression, sparse columns and filestream, and I am really excited about this topic!)

4 November: SQL Server Concurrency Control: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning
(This is always one of my favorite topics, because it is crucial to good performance, but is frequently overlooked in tuning discussions.)

5-7 November: SQL Server Data Internals and Tuning
(This 3-day seminar is a condensed version of my 5-day course which I have taught all over the world. We will start where the Data Storage Formats seminar leaves off, and look at how your storage structures can affect query performance. We'll go deeper into the structure of indexes and then talk about how your choice of indexes affects your query performance. We'll look at query tuning techniques, and plan caching, including new behaviors in SQL Server 2008.)

The great guys at SQLKnowHow are offering an early bird discount, too. Plus swag... plus great food....what else could you want?

See you there!

~Kalen

Did You Know: My Fall Travel Plans

Kalen Delaney — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:48:00 GMT

If you check my schedule, you'll see my summer and early Fall are spent mostly close to home. This is a good thing, because I have a book to write!

But starting in October, I'll be gone at least every other week, with two trips to Europe and one to the East Coast of the US.

In early October, I'll be presenting at a multi-city Summit for the Stockholm-based training company, Cornerstone. Although I've been to Stockholm several times, the Summit will take me to 3 other Swedish cities which I have never visited. And of course, one of the best parts of the trip is that I'll get to spend time with my good friend Tibor.

Following that is a private class in Connecticut, where I have several very good friends, including MVP Roy Harvey.

In early November, I am very excited to be presenting 3 seminars in the UK for SQLKnowHow. This is a collaboration of UK-based SQL Server consultants and trainers who are putting together a whole suite of events. I'll be presenting two one-day seminars and one three-day seminar, and getting to work with my friend Tony, as well as his partners Simon Sabin, Allan Mitchell Darren Green.

I'll get back from the UK in time to go to Colorado Springs to help my mother celebrate her 90th birthday.

Near the end of November is the big PASS conference, at which I'll be delivering a pre-conference seminar, as well as a spotlight session.

In early December, I finish out my year's travels with a 5-day public class at my oldest partner, SQL Soft+. It's in Portland, Oregon, which is about a 3.5 hour drive for me, so I can take my own car, and not worry about those silly airline baggage restrictions!

I hope to see many of you at some point in my travels!

~Kalen

Did You Know? A P.S. to my PASS presentation

Kalen Delaney — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:51:00 GMT

This is hot off the presses!

I will be presenting for the UK Server Server UG in Reading, November 16 at the Microsoft campus. The presentation will be similar to my preconference session at PASS, with a few enhancements and extra details.

You can read about it here:

http://sqlserverfaq.com?eid=103

If you're UK-based, I hope to see you there!

~Kalen