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28 August 2008 01:13

Reminder: Upcoming SQL Launch Event in Jacksonville, FL on Sep 12, 2008

The Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group ( www.jssug.com ) is hosting a SQL 2008 launch event on Friday, Sep 12, 2008 in downtown Jacksonville. Plans are for 15 sessions, all focusing on SQL 2008 and most being presented by speakers who live in the greater...
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03 July 2008 01:02

INETA Champs Program

My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program . Looks interesting and is a nice step in the right direction for growing local communities. The part I'm not thrilled with is the self-nomination. It's probably a fatal...
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27 June 2008 01:01

Volunteering

Recently I was visiting with an old acquaintance and one of the topics that came up was volunteers. At some point in the past I had said something about volunteers that subsequently proved true (hey, I am right sometimes!) and based on that, he was crowning...
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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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13 June 2008 01:09

Notes on My Visit To The Space Coast Users Group

I visited the Space Coast group last night, hosted by Ken Tucker , and did about 90 minute of SQL Q&A with a nice group of developers who were all interested in data access (perhaps those not interested didn't attend!). We talked about partitioning...
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05 June 2008 01:51

Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting

Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected (not that I doubted their presentation skills) because for most DBA's it's a little looked at/noticed area...
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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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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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15 February 2008 01:14

Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings

User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term, and the best way to create that 'more' is to work on getting attendees to talk to each other. Here in Orlando we experiment with different...
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12 February 2008 01:22

Making Sponsorship Work at Community Events & User Groups (My Wish List)

This topic came up during the speaker reception at the South Florida Code Camp and while I've posted here and there , it's probably worth writing down some thoughts about what events like Code Camp and SQLSaturday can do to make being a sponsor...
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