I am honored to present Building Your First SSIS 2012 Package to the Madison Professional Association for SQL Server (MADPass) Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012! If you read this blog and will be in the Madison, Wisconsin area Wednesday, stop by and introduce yourself! I’m the fat guy with a fu. :{>

I am honored to be presenting A Day of SSIS Friday, 13 Apr 2012 – a precon for SQL Saturday 111 in Atlanta. There is early-bird pricing in effect until the Ides of March. You can register and view details of the course topics here. Jessica Moss and Adam Machanic are also delivering precons that day: Jessica’s is Learn SSRS in a Day and Adam’s, No ...

As in the past, I am sharing my PASS Summit 2011 evaluation results. As also in the past, I explain that I do this because I want to improve my serve. If this kind of post makes you uncomfortable for any reason, please stop now and go read Brent’s awesome post on improving your evaluation numbers. It has awesome advice (as usual). I encourage ...

I was honored to participate in delivering several presentations at the PASS Summit 2011. I received lots of feedback. I am sharing portions of the feedback from session evaluations, as in years past. The scale is 1 to 5: 1 - Very Poor, 2 - Poor, 3 - Average, 4 - Good, 5 – Excellent. I sincerely appreciate the feedback provided here. I promise to ...

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: :{>

Murphy (of Murphy’s Law fame) was in attendance at my Lightning Talk presentation earlier today. First, I followed an outstanding and precedent-setting performance by Rob Farley (Blog | @rob_farley | SQLPeople) accompanied by Buck Woody (Blog | @buckwoody | SQLPeople). They presented an original song about query tuning written by Rob. It was ...

At PASS I am giving a presentation on Denali SQL Server 2012 - What's New in Engine and Tools. In previous blog posts I've compiled a list of resources and, now that CTP3 is out, I thought I'd compile a much larger list that flows somewhat like my slide deck. Here is the deck and sample files:http://bit.ly/AB-PASS-2012   The second demo ...

In preparation for SQL Saturday #84 – Kalamazoo,  SQLBits 9, and the PASS Summit 2011; I’ve been honing my presentation called Designing an SSIS Framework. I delivered this presentation a few times over the past couple months. Each time, I promised the attendees I’d send them the code if they emailed me… and a couple things got in the ...

Just a quick reminder I am presenting Saturday (17 Sep 2011) at SQL Satuday #84 in Kalamazoo! Check out this schedule - there are a bunch or smart people presenting... plus me! I hope to see you there! :{>

Introduction I can hardly believe SQLBits 9 is in two weeks! Christy and I are excited to make our first trip to the United Kingdom! Two Sessions It’s always an honor to present; I am doubly honored to present two sessions at SQLBits 9: A Day of SSIS – Thursday, 29 Sep 2011 – I believe there’s a limit and it is filling up fast! ...