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20 August 2008 01:26

Notes on My Visit to the St Louis SQL Group

Actually it was subset of the group, but Kathi & Julie from the St Louis SQL Server User Group did a great job of marketing my free Succesful Technical Speaking class. Microsoft was kind enough to provide both meeting space as well as lunch in a great...
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19 August 2008 01:21

IndyTechFest Update - Aug 18, 2008

Just had a note from John Magnabosco , the schedule for the event on Oct 4, 2008 has been published. I'll be there doing a presentation on Replication, Steve Jones is doing one on Green Computing, and I see Kevin Kline has two on the agenda as well...
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23 June 2008 01:06

Notes on My Visit to Birmingham SQL Group

Spent last Tues/Wed in Birmingham, speaking at the user group Tuesday night and then presenting a seminar on Wed. Attendance at the user group was good, about 18, and had really nice participation as I did my standard presentation on transactional replication...
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11 June 2008 01:29

IndyTechFest Update

Just received this from my friend John Magnabosco about the SQL portion of the event: Business Intelligence Track - TBD (Arie Jones, Perpetual Technologies) - Performance Point Server (Craig Utley, Solid Quality Mentors) - Troubleshooting MDX Queries...
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23 May 2008 08:11

Visiting Birmingham SQL Group in June

I'll be doing a presentation for the Steel City SQL Group on June 17 and then on June 18th I'm doing an all day seminar on Performance Tuning at the Embassy Suites in Birmingham. Cost is $129 and that includes a nice lunch. The seminar is really...
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05 May 2008 01:02

Post Event Notes on SQLSaturday #3

Our 3rd SQLSaturday went amazingly well due to the efforts of Brian Knight and his volunteers. Attendance for the day was a massive 275 people! The day started well with wait time for check in no more than 5 minutes and everyone was patient thanks to...
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28 April 2008 08:29

Visiting the Space Coast .Net Users Group in June

My friend Ken Tucker invited me to speak on June 11, I'll be doing a short presentation on SQL performance and then trying to answer as many questions as I can with the goal of showing developers how and why the DBA's make such harsh demands of...
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28 April 2008 01:09

Orlando Heroes Launch Event

I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS , and we were joined at the community table along with Shawn Weisfeld of The Orlando .Net Users Group and Ken Tucker of The Space Coast .Net...
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24 March 2008 01:02

Orlando Code Code Follow Up

Although attendance was down this year (around 280 attendees) due to it being held Easter weekend, I thought this was easily the best of the Orlando Code Camps so far. More volunteers, better logistics, and definitely a great site (same as we used for...
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17 March 2008 01:04

IndyTechFest 2008 Set for Oct 4, 2008

I've been emailing back and forth with IndyTechfest organizer John Magnabosco over the past year as we've traded notes about running community events, so when he invited me to attend as a speaker it seemed like the perfect opportunity to go see...
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10 March 2008 01:52

Performance Tuning Seminar in Jacksonville, FL on May 2, 2008

I'll be teaching a one day performance tuning seminar that targets beginning DBA's and developers that do data access, hoping to provide some useful insight into things that they can do immediately to address performance problems. It's on...
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28 February 2008 08:33

Notes From My Visit with the Charlotte SQL Group

I'm headed back to Orlando after a quick trip to Charlotte. Flew in yesterday and spent some time with my friend Peter Shire and team (including Brooke! ) of SQLSentry talking about all manner of stuff that comes up when you get some techies in a...
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18 February 2008 10:25

SQLSaturday #2 (Tampa 2008) Notes

Congratulations to Wes Dumey, Pam Shaw, and the rest of the Tampa volunteers for building a very nice event. Very little went wrong that I could see and everyone was having a great time. I did my usual presentation on Beginning Transactional Replication...
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11 February 2008 07:16

SQLSaturday Tampa 2008 is This Weekend (Feb 16)

The Tampa crew of Wes Dumey and Pam Shaw and many volunteers have been working on this for the past couple months and it's all about to come together. The almost final schedule is posted and it looks like attendance is going to be very good. I'll...
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04 February 2008 09:15

Notes on the South Florida Code Camp

I attended the South Florida Code Camp this past Saturday and it turned out to be quite an event. More than 600 attendees arrived to watch 72 sessions spread across 12 tracks! That's just an incredible amount of variety and opportunity. I presented...
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