Slides and demos for my hdc08omaha talks are now available for download from http://tinyurl.com/5oykgj Thanks to all who attended!

First up, my article Hierarchy ID has been published in MSDN Magazine. Its also available on the MSDN Web Site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794278.aspx. Second, my recent interview with Dr. Greg Low and his world famous ''SQL Downunder Podcast'' is now avaialbe at http://www.sqldownunder.com/PreviousShows/tabid/98/Default.aspx. ...

Yesterday I drove down from Sioux Falls to Omaha so that I could catch a talk being given by Sudhir Gajre to the Omaha SQL Server/BI Interest Group. I first got to know Sudhir when he, I and Luke Schollmeyer were restarting a SQL Server Users Group in Omaha. Sudhir is a stud at SQL Server performance tuning and helped write one of the best papers ...