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…
One of my roles on the PASS Board of Directors is to develop the program for our annual Summit. Our next PASS Summit is in Seattle November 14th - 17th, 2006 [http://w3.sqlpass.org/summit06/BG]. The general sessions are broken into tracks for database administration, business intelligence, application…
I created a small video [http://www.cleardata.biz/cleartrace/ClearTraceDemo.wmv] to demo ClearTrace [http://www.cleardata.biz/cleartrace/default.aspx]. It's only about two minutes long. This is also the technology we're planning to use at the PASS Conference to capture presentations.…
The next PASS [http://www.sqlpass.org/] Conference is in Seattle in November 2006. The Call for Speakers [http://passew.prod.web.sba.com/callpapers/CallPapers.cfm?conference_id=15] for this conference closes on April 28th, 2006. If you have any interest in speaking you'll need to…
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…
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&…
Just a reminder that the PASS Call for Presentations [http://bneo15.sba.com/ew/pass/callpapers/CallPapers.cfm?conference_id=11] closes this Friday. The conference is the last week in September.…
My session [http://bneo15.sba.com/ew/pass/displaymod/detailevent.cfm?conference_id=8&event_id=928] yesterday was packed so I'm doing it again today. Apparently quite a few people were turned away when they moved it to a smaller room. It's in the…