I'll be speaking to the St. Louis SQL Server Users Group [http://www.stlssug.org/index.html]on the afternoon of June 12th at the Microsoft offices from 1PM until 4PM. I'll be doing two presentations back to back. The first is What I Wish Developers…
You can download the PowerPoint file and demo script from my webcast here [http://www.sqlteam.com/downloads/sql2005webcast.zip]. I'll post a link to the recorded presentation when they post it. You can view the recorded webcast by registering here [http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;26540591;12550611;…
UPDATED: The content of this presentation has significantly changed. The presentation no longer covers the “What I Wish Developers Knew“ Material. Basically this turns out to be a 45 minute session with 15 minutes of Q&A and I couldn't shoe horn a 75 minute session into…
Our European Conference kicked off this morning in Barcelona. Ken Henderson, Bob Ward and Bart Duncan are all part of the PSS team. They are doing a day long pre-conference session on SQL Server internals. I think after being in Europe for five days now I'm finally over…
I'll be working a booth at the SQL Server 2005 launch event [http://www.technetevents.com/launch/] in Kansas City. This is an all day event with developer topics in the morning and DBA topics in the afternoon.…
Of all the presentations that MS submitted for the PASS Conference, this was the one that intrigued me the most. It's on Wednesday at 1:30PM and is being delivered by Alan Griver [http://ew.sqlpass.org/ew/pass/displaymod/detailevent.cfm?conference_id=11&event_id=…
PASS sent out an email tonight with the slate of candidates [http://www.sqlpass.org/member/elections/index.cfm] for the Board of Directors so it's official. I'm running for the Board of Directors for PASS. There are six people running for three slots and it&…
The folks that brought you the SQL Server Roadshow have a free seminar for SQL Serve 2005 [http://www.windowsitpro.com/roadshows/sqlserverdba/index.cfm]. It focuses on the DBA side and looks pretty interesting. Their marketing pitch reads: In this free, half-day event you’ll learn how the top…
Just a reminder that I'll be speaking at the Kansas City .NET SIG [http://dotnetsig.org/meeting.aspx#JULY2005] on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005. Suprisingly enough I'm going to be talking about SQL Server. The talk is titled What I Wish Developers Knew About SQL Server.…
The SQL Server Roadshow [http://www.windowsitpro.com/roadshows/sqlserverusa/] is finally dragging itself to my neck of the woods. I plan to be there. Is anyone else from Kansas City planning to go?…