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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 character flaw, but I'm just not a huge fan of...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 07-02-2008
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 me the know-all person on volunteers and suggested...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-26-2008
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. They've only been back in business since...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-22-2008
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, indexing, concurrency, blocking, deadlocks...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-12-2008
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 of the database world. They delivered a lot of...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-04-2008
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 targetted at the beginner DBA or a developer who...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 05-23-2008
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 our "greeter" Scott. Having someone working...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 05-04-2008
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 developers:-) It'll be fun to visit his group...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-28-2008
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 Users Group . We saw a lot of people we already...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-27-2008
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 SQLSaturday#1 in Orlando) all combined to make it...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 03-23-2008

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