I love to learn about new technology, and I especially love a long deep-dive technical session with a real expert or a well-crafted, inches thick technical book. Even if either one is expensive. Learning is probably my favorite thing to do. Yet I stand before you with an appeal: Stop “sending people to training.” Why would I say such a thing? ...

My PASS demos are now available on my website for my Precon Session on SQL Server Concurrency: Locking and Blocking and Row Versions, Oh My!  and for my Spotlight Session on Seeking SQL Server Secrets. You can download both sets of scripts from www.SQLServerInternals.com/conferences Also, I set up a FaceBook fan page a few weeks ago, for ...

Some of the sessions from 24 Hours of PASS have been made available for viewing here. The currently available sessions are those by speakers who will be presenting a pre-conference seminar at the the big PASS conference in November. In addition to me, the other speakers are: Andy Kelly Peter Myers Adam Machanic Erik Veerman Brian Knight Although ...

I know, my Geek City posts are usually really technical, but I figured it’s only Geeks who are going to want a solid 24 hours of SQL Server presentations… so this post is dedicated to all the SQL Server Geeks out there! I will be presenting as part of 24 hours of PASS, on September 2. You can read about my session (“What’s Simple about Simple ...

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 ...