I would like to attend to SQLBits this year, but my agenda is already overbooked. I hope you have the time to attend because there are a lot of interesting sessions, it's a good excuse to visit London (the conference is scheduled on September 13, 2008 - it's a Saturday) and there are very good speakers. The conference is free, but registration is ...

SQL Teach - Jean Rene's conference that rotates around Canada, is quickly becoming my favorite event of the year, eh? The last one was in Toronto a couple weeks ago. The next one is in Montreal. Then next spring he'll be in Vancouver again. SQLTeach is 2 tracks of DevTeach which also has tracks for .Net, ASP, architecture, Agile, SharePoint, and ...

I just got back from Vancouver where I was attending/presenting at the SqlTeach conference. There were other speakers from sqlblog as well - Adam Machanic, Paul Nielsen and Peter DeBetta. This conference is a venture put on by Jean-Rene Roy and his wife Maryse from Montreal, it started as DevTeach in 2003 and this year the SQL Server track ...

I'm writing this at 39K feet on a United 757 flying home to Denver. This week was SQLTeach in Vancouver followed by the PASS Board meeting in Redmond. SQLTeach is a smaller (400-500 attendees fits in a hotel) developer/SQL conference organized by Jean-Rene that rotates across Canada (Montreal - Vancouver - Toronto). This is my third SQL Teach and ...

I’m in Nashville for the second DevLink conference with about 400 others. This multi-technology conference has a fun code-camp feel, with the fixings of the full conference and a few special touches that set it apart from the big conferences – things like hand-written thank you notes for the speakers, and Rik Roberts - an hilarious comedian ...

I know I’ve been neglecting my blog lately, but I at least have a valid excuse this time. Four weeks ago, I received two emails on a single day, both inviting me to speak at two different Dutch events that will be held in the same week.   I replied “yes” to both mails, and since have been preparing my sessions. For those readers who would ...

I still lack the time to blog about proper hardcore SQL stuff, but I do want to make a quick post to let you all know about a great conference that I’ll be attending and speaking at.   I’m talking about the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland later this week (June 7th, to be precise). I am particularly ...

As Peter DeBetta already mentioned in his post, a few of SqlBlog-ers including myself were at the DevTeach/SqlTeach conference in Montreal. It was great to catch up with everybody and as always, there wasn't enough time to hang out with the fellow speakers, attend all the good sessions and enjoy the Montreal nightlife. Peter and I did a duet ...

I know I have been a slacker when it comes to posting lately, but I have been on the road quite a bit of late and will finally have some time at home over the next 2 weeks and have some new topics that I should be posting about during that time. As for DevTeach, SQLblog had a great presence at the SQLTeach part of the conference here in Montreal, ...

Montreal is one of my favorite places, and May 14-17 is the SQL teach Conference in Montreal. I'd like to invite you to my pre-con, Design and Optimization Best-Practices with SQL Server 2005. If you've always believed that the design of the database determines it's success, but couldn't quite put your finger on exactly how to design a ...