The University of Virginia is having a fall conference that is free and open to the public on Tuesday November 13th. My good friend Andy Leonard and I will be speaking on various SQL Server related topics so if you are in the area and available that day you are most welcome to stop by. You can find more information and register for the ...

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 ...

New Jersey SQL Server User Group (NJSQL) is bringing SQLSaturday #39 to NYC on April 24, 2010!  The free all-day training event will be hosted by Microsoft at their Midtown Manhattan offices.  The speaker line-up is growing fast—if you'd like to present, visit the event's open call for speakers.  This is a free full-day ...

For any of you who attended the Quest breakfast at PASS (and anyone else really) I wanted to go ahead and post the code and give a little wrap up/explanation. (I will post the stuff on perf counters later. They are cool, but this is really what I wanted to make sure people saw.) I had a plan for my presentation, but time was less than I expected, ...

The NJSQL user group is hosting a one-day Saturday SQL Server event at the Microsoft Iselin offices.  On October 24th Jacob Sebastian, Robert Pearl and I will be presenting on the following SQL Server topics: * T-SQL Defensive coding and exception handling best practices* Database forensics in SQL Server (''Who did it and ran?'')* SQL Server ...

I'll be presenting ''New SQL Server 2008 Features'' in downtown Louisville, KY on June 22, in conjunction with the Louisville SQL Server Users Group thanks to group leader Malathi Mahadevan.  We'll be giving away some SQL 2008 books and other goodies.  I'll post further details (exact time and location) shortly. Update:  The ...

Heading down to SQL Saturday (www.sqlsaturday.com) in Atlanta to give a 9:15 AM session on Database Design, with a greater than normal dose of normal thrown in. I hope there are more than 7 people to show up, because I would hate if everyone got some swag (I usually like tossing out stuff when people make cool and interesting statements, and NOT ...