My goodness how time does fly. It seems like just a few months ago I was going to my hometown SQL Saturday in Nashville, and now here I go again to my NEW hometown SQL Saturday in Chattanooga, TN. Much like the Nashville event, I didn't really do anything in terms of organization of the event, but I will be speaking at the event this year (last ...

On February 26, I will be doing my "How to Design a Relational Database" pre-conference session in Tampa, FL.  You can see the abstract here if you are interested, and you can sign up there too, naturally. Currently priced at 158.19 it is a bargain and I totally promise it will be around 8 hours of talking about and designing ...

This next two weeks are going to be awesome. May 11, I get to see the Who for probably the last time ever. Saturday I am speaking on Database Design at SQL Saturday in Atlanta, then heading to Disney World.  It rarely gets even close to this good for a two week span, and SQL Saturday is a big part of that. I love going to SQL ...

I got the email prodding speakers to blog about our upcoming sessions, so I got myself up and started to write this blog. It has been such a long time since I have done much side SQL work (other than doing quite a bit of tech editing, along with doing some work for PASS leading up to speaker submissions), that my blog didn't even show up in the ...

On *August 22, I will be doing my ''How to Design a Relational Database'' pre-conference session in Birmingham, Alabama. You can see the abstract here if you are interested, and you can sign up there too, naturally. At just $100, which includes a free ebook copy of my database design book, it is a great bargain and I totally promise it will ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I am!) The first issue that arose in my ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I am!)  Before ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I ...

Wow, where does the time go? Hope I see every reader there in Louisville this weekend for a lovely time. Say you live in Alaska and it would be too far to go in one day? Hey, we all have our problems (and don't tell anyone, but I am going to try to finish up video versions of these sessions by the end of the year.. shh.) I will be doing my ...

Thursday night, at 6:00 (or so) I will be speaking in Richmond (http://richmondsql.org/cs2007/ ), talking about How to Implement a Hierarchy using SQL Server. The abstract is: One of the most common structures you will come across in the real world is a hierarchy (either a single parent ''tree'' or a multi-parent ''graph''). Many systems ...