Assuming all goes as planned, I will be in Columbus, OH this Friday night and Saturday for SQL Saturday 75. I really love SQL Saturday events the best of all of the events because they are very intimate in nature. As a fairly antisocial person, I sometimes get overwhelmed by the size of other events, even the SQL Rally was just barely in my ...

Introduction I got to attend SQL Saturday #48 2 Oct 2010 and was honored to present. ''I'm Andy, and I'm a session-hopper.'' There. I said it. When I'm not presenting, I often wander between sessions. I want to learn a little something from everyone. Here are some sessions I wandered through and some notes from them: Alejandro Mesa - ...

Yesterday I delivered a session named ''Develop T-SQL defensively'' at East Iowa SQL Saturday. Thanks to those who attended, and many thanks to Michelle Ufford, Chris Leonard, Ed Leighton-Dick, and other volunteers, who organized the event. Here are the links with more information and more repro scripts, more or less in the order following ...

Yesterday I delivered a session named ''Developing T-SQL to survive concurrency'' at East Iowa SQL Saturday. Thanks to everyone who attended, and thanks to Michelle Ufford, Chris Leonard, Ed Leighton-Dick, and other volunteers, who organized the event. As promised, here are the links with more information and more repro scripts, more or less in ...

I'm honored to be presenting a day of SSIS training entitled From Zero To SSIS on 15 Oct 2009 - the Thursday before SQLSaturday #21 (17 Oct 2009) in Orlando. I'm so excited about the opportunity! I've personally taught hundreds of developers to use SSIS and wrote courseware used to train even more. In this course, I use real-world data ...