In my post last night entitled Note to Self: No Head Injuries Before Presenting I told the story of a Lightning Talk presentation. I really liked the pictures that didn’t make it into the session. Since I worked so hard on them, I wanted to show the slides with the pictures: :{>

Introduction It is always an honor to present – always. This year I have submitted four presentations to the PASS Summit 2011. You can view my submissions, as well as those of others, here. A Day of SSIS in the Enterprise Pre-conference session, 7 hours In this day-long seminar, SQL Server MVPs Andy Leonard and Tim Mitchell - along with ...

… but a couple are almost sold out! Kendal Van Dyke (Blog | @SQLDBA) wrote a great post about the presenters for the inaugural SQLRally scheduled for 11-13 May 2011 in sunny Orlando! $199 for a day-long pre-conference session by these presenters is a great deal. I encourage you to check it out! :{>

I know I am late on actually publishing these, but here are the presentation slide decks and demo’s from the two sessions I presented at PASS Summit 2010.  Attached to this post are two zip files that contain all the materials for each of the sessions.  You will probably notice that I haven’t published PowerPoint slides, and that all of ...

I am honored to present Managing Teams to the PASS Professional Development VC Tuesday 13 Jul 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT! Are you a member of a team of database professionals? Are you part of a developer team? Do you manage or lead a team? This presentation is for you. Andy Leonard shares experiences, war stories, and lessons learned from years of ...

Tonight I got my session evaluations back from PASS for the first large presentation I have ever done.  I am somewhat surprised by the results, they are actually much better than I expected.  I definitely have a number of things to work on as far as public speaking goes.  Paul Randal gave me a number of tips while I was still at ...

A: You Bet!!! Lets face it, User Groups need speakers and while its great to have the experts in the industry like Andy Leonard, Buck Woody, or Joe Webb come to your user group, if you get one of them once a year, you are doing good.  One of the most interesting sessions at our local user group in the last two years, at least to me, was ...

Coming right off a excellent weekend in Central Florida with SQL Saturday, PASS Summit is now less than two weeks away.  Hopefully by now you have already registered since there was a lower price for early registration, but in the event that you haven't there is still time to register.  This will be the first major conference that I will ...

The session recordings from 24 hours of PASS for the Pre/Post-Conference Speakers at PASS Summit have been made available on the SQL PASS Website.  It’s not very intuitive where exactly you have to click on the landing page they provide so I thought I’d make it easier by providing a copy of the correct link here: Pre/Post-Conference Sneak ...

So last night I thought I started off in the first session of 24 hours of PASS with Paul and Louis, and I had originally picked 5 sessions that I was going to attend and I originally planned to stick with that.  However, Tom LaRock (twitter/blog) decided that he was going to do all 24 sessions and to prove it he, he stayed live on uStream ...