I was chosen to speak at SQL Saturday 111 in Atlanta GA this weekend. I will be doing my session called “It’s TEMPDB, Why Should You Care”. In this session I cover the importance of TEMPDB and how best to configure TEMPDB in your environment. Not only do I cover a lot of material on […]
Category: Training/Events
I am a Linchpin Team Mate
Linchpin People, LLC is an organization led by Brian Moran and Andy Leonard with Mike Walsh and Robert Pearl as Partners. For those who do not know about Linchpin, they are a technology company with a focus on the Microsoft Database stack on the front, but behind the scene they are about developing people. The […]
SQLSAT107
SQL Saturday 107
SQLskills IE3 #sqlskills
I attended my first SQLskills event in December 2011. Due to a big project at work I was able to work in week three of the Immersion Events which is HA/DR “High Availability and Disaster Recovery”. Although I am taking the training out of sequence my hope is to be able to attend IE2 later […]
Idera ACE Program
On March 9th a tweet went out by David Fargo announcing the 2012 Idera ACE’s and my twitter handle was included in the list. http://bit.ly/ABedR0 March 9th could also be deemed the day twitter blew up my iPhone. The congratulations from the SQL Community was truly amazing. The Idera ACE program is something that has […]
When training is just that good!
I have the privilege of attending SQL Skills Immersion Event week one in Atlanta GA this week. My expectations were high since it is SQL Skills. Paul and Kimberly are two of the most respected SQL Server professionals in the business and have quite a few years under their belt with working with SQL Server. […]
First Blog Since the PASS Summit
The time following the PASS Summit has been absolutely crazy for me. Upon returning home I spent some much needed time with my wife and kids and returned to work on Monday. During my normal lunchtime activity of playing racquetball I sustained a very nasty injury to my eye. This put me out of commission […]
Summit Sessions Day Three
I started out day three after the keynote by attending Adam Machanic session on Query Tuning. I must say that I will need to watch this session again once I can stream it. There was way to much good information being given for me to remember it all and couldn’t take notes for fear of […]