This Thursday, January 17, at New England SQL Server we'll be featuring Mark Souza, General Manager of the Data Platform Group at Microsoft. Most of you are probably familiar with that name; he's the guy who founded the CAT team, and he's been in a number of key roles in the SQL Server organization for the past several years. Mark's topic for ...

Autumn is creeping inevitably closer here in the US, and that means that speaking season is about to kick into high gear. Here's my current schedule for the remainder of the year:   September 8, 17:00 GMT (online) - 24 Hours of PASS webcast: ''Baseline Basics or: Who Broke the Database?''In this session, excerpted from my PASS Summit ...

April in the Boston area means many things. The Boston Marathon, the beginning of baseball season, and -- hopefully -- a bit of a respite from the ridiculously cold and snowy winter we've been having. This April will mean one more thing: A full-day, free SQL Server event featuring 30 top-notch sessions. SQL Saturday 71 will be the third ...

If you're reading this blog, you're undoubtedly already familiar with Kalen Delaney. She's been writing the premier internals book series for Microsoft since SQL Server 7.0, teaching SQL Server for many years before that, and is known as one of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to how SQL Server works and the art of applying ...

Just a quick post to let you know that there are still some seats available for Andy Leonard's ''From Zero to SSIS'' course, running October 6-8 in Waltham, MA. To help move the final seats we're offering a great discount to companies that are interested in sending more than one student. If you send two people, each seat will be reduced by $700, ...

If you've been working with SQL Server for long, you are no doubt familiar with the work of Andy Leonard. Andy is a true master of the art and science of data extraction, transformation, and loading. And as his recent blog series on the software business shows, he has also fine-tuned the art of dealing with the many types of people you're likely ...

We have just two weeks to go before Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp touch down in the Boston area to deliver their famous SQL Server Immersions course. This is going to be a truly fantastic SQL Server learning experience and we're hoping a few more people will join in the fun. This is where you come in: we have a few vacant seats remaining and we ...

If you've been looking for advanced training in the northeast, your wait is over. Paul and Kimberly will be gracing us with one of their famous ''SQL Server Immersion'' events the week of March 29. This course will cover storage engine internals, indexing and performance strategies, and of course in-depth sections on database maintenance from the ...

The January 30 event is now starting to shape up quite nicely! Below you will find the current schedule of sessions for the day. We still have some room, so if you haven't registered already, now is the time to do so. Please make sure to register online if you're going to attend so that we can get a fairly accurate headcount for food, bags, ...

Last week I very quietly announced, via Twitter, that we've officially launched the site for New England Data Camp v2.0, the second go at a full-day event jointly hosted by both the New England SQL Server Users Group and the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group. The event will take place on January 30, 2010, at Microsoft's Waltham, ...