SQL Saturday #300 [http://www.sqlsaturday.com/300/eventhome.aspx] is coming up right here in Kansas City on September 13th, 2014. This is our fifth SQL Saturday which means it's the fifth anniversary of our now infamous BBQ Crawl. We get together on Friday afternoon before the…
The next Kansas City SQL Saturday [http://www.sqlsaturday.com/159/eventhome.aspx] is coming up on August 4th. We’ll have the usual SQL Saturday goodness: lots of technical sessions, great networking events and a fantastic speaker dinner. And we’ll have the Third Annual Kansas City SQL Saturday…
I’m presenting in Omaha on Writing Faster SQL at 6PM on December 7th. You can find meeting details on the Omaha SQL Server User Group [http://www.omahamtg.com/Events.aspx?ID=138] page. The meeting location requires an RSVP so building security has a list of attendees. The…
I’m going back to speak in St. Louis next month. I didn’t make it last year and I’m looking forward to it. You can find additional details on the St. Louis SQL Server user group web site [http://www.stlssug.org/calendar.html]. The meeting will be…
Our SQL Saturday in Kansas City [http://www.sqlsaturday.com/53/eventhome.aspx] is coming up on October 2nd. We have over 40 sessions on the schedule. These cover everything from very basic SQL Server administration to database mirroring to professional development topics. If you’re in the area we’…
I’m presenting at the Kansas City SQL Server User’s Group [http://kansascity.sqlpass.org/] on Thursday, August 13th at Johnson County Community College. Check the monitors when you arrive for the room. We start at 6PM with 30 minutes of announcements and such. I’ll be starting at…
I’m speaking Tuesday morning on Understanding the Procedure Cache [http://www.sqlteach.com/wconnect/wc.dll?FournierTransformation~1,5,1,1691] at DevTeach\SQLTeach in Montreal. This is the same presentation I delivered at the recent PASS European Conference. At PASS I missed being the top speaker in the…
I attended the SQL Server 2008 launch in Los Angeles for PASS. It was VERY nice to leave sub-freezing Kansas and arrive in warm, sunny Los Angeles. My pictures of the keynote didn't turn out all that well unfortunately. The ones I took before it started turned out…
I'll be in Los Angeles for the launch this week. I'll be the PASS representative at the Heroes Community Booth in the Microsoft Pavilion. When you enter the Microsoft Pavilion we'll be all the way back in the left corner. Come by and say…
The Code To Live [http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Code_To_Live] video starts with an All-Girl AC/DC cover band. I'm not really sure what else you need to know. Steve Loethen [http://geekswithblogs.net/thesenator/] is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft here in Kansas City (or…