Last year at the Summit I missed out on this really cool concept. Donate your unused items from your hotel. You know the little bars of soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc. There are several places setup at the Summit where you can drop off these items to be donated to a local charity. Want to take […]
Category: Training/Events
SQL Saturday 97 has ended
Well it isn’t quite over for me just yet, I still have a flight home tomorrow and can’t wait to get home and hug my wife and kiddo’s. I have to commend Wes and his crew for pulling off a great event. The location was great and not to difficult to find, the rooms were […]
SQL Saturday 97 starts in 7 hours
I flew into Austin Texas today and got to spend time with a lot of great people. The journey started in ATL with Thomas LaRock and myself being on the same flight. When we landed in Austin we were graciously picked up by Amy Muehleman and driven to the hotel that a large group of […]
SQL Saturday 97 Bound
Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX with some awesome speakers. Wish me luck, when I leave Austin I hope that many more TempDB’s are optimized.
The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts which look great with a pair of slacks. Today I work my speaker shirt from SQL Saturday #81 (Birmingham AL). I was shopping this evening at a local supermarket when a young guy came up […]
SQL Saturday #97 – Austin TX
In less than a week I will make the trip out to Austin TX to speak at my 7th SQL Saturday this year. I am really excited about this trip. There are several speakers I am looking forward to hanging out with and getting to know better. This is perfect timing as the Summit is […]
SQL Saturday 89 has come and gone!
All the planning, stressing, and freaking out about SQL Saturday #89 came to and end this past weekend. We had a very successful event with 314 attendees, over 30 speakers, lots of volunteers, and some awesome sponsors. This was the ATL areas 4th SQL Saturday and the largest yet. The location of the event and […]
Speaking at SQL Saturday 89
With a late cancellation with one of our speakers a hole was opened on our speaker lineup. I reached out to a couple of the folks we couldn’t originally fit on our schedule but one couldn’t get a cheap enough flight and the other had schedule other plans. A third hasn’t responded back. With time […]