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Tag: speaking

  • Two in Two Days

    It’s a busy week for me. I’ve got quite a few articles to review, feedback to write for Stairway Series authors, review and changes of some PowerPoint decks for later this month, and two User Group presentations.

    This is on top of a busy first week of school in the household. I feel like I’m playing catch up all week.

    Boulder

    I’ll be at the Boulder SQL Server User Group tonight. My presentation will be on Unstructured Data in SQL Server, looking at Filestream and Filetable and how they can be setup and used.

    Fortunately I’ve done this before, and a little practice this week was enough to get me ready.

    Hopefully I’ll see a few of you there as I haven’t been to Boulder in over a year.

    Denver SQL

    The Denver SQL Server User Group usually asks me do a presentation or two each year and this time I have a new one. They get to be my guinea pigs for the first delivery of this talk.

    Get Testing with tsqlt, a preview of a talk I’ll be doing at SQL in the City, is on the agenda. I’ve been going over this one a few times this week, so hopefully it goes smoothly.

  • SQL in the City 2014

    It’s official, we have a couple 2014 SQL in the City events scheduled, covering two countries this fall. Both events are packed into a short time (less than two weeks), so Grant and I have quite a bit of travel ahead of us.
     
    Once again we’ve divided up the sessions into administration for the DBAs and development topics for the developers, but feel free to cross from one to the other. Our theme is “Ship often, ship safe” and we hope to show you how to build better software, faster. Our goal is to help you get your enhancements and patches into production so your customers can make better use of their applications.
     
    London is first, on Oct 24 at Grange St. Paul’s Hotel. The agenda is set with Grant and I delivering a few sessions and a host of Red Gate developers along with some Friends of Red Gate presenting on a variety of topics. We also have a labs you can drop into during the day to gain practical knowledge on how to solve some of your SQL Server problems.
     
    A little over a week later, on November 3, 2014, SQL in the City returns to Seattle, with an all day event the Monday before the Pass Summit. We have a similar agenda, though a few different speakers at the McCaw Hall at Seattle Center.
     
    We do hope you’ll join us at one of the events, and get a day of training on SQL Server, the Red Gate way. We’ll also have a short happy hour afterwards, and Grant and I would love to share a toast with you. Feel free to stop and chat with either of us at anytime we’re not presenting.

  • Speaking at SQL Saturday #304–Indianapolis

    indy304Next weekend is SQL Saturday #304 in Indianapolis, a milestone for me. It’s the first Indy SQL Saturday I’m speaking at, though not the first one they’ve held. I’ve been to the Indy Tech Fest, but that was years ago and I’m looking forward to going back.

    It’s also the first 300-ish event for me. I’ll be at #300 in Kansas City in September, but as it sometimes goes, #304 is happening before that milestone.

    This looks like another great event, with speakers coming from all over. The schedule has Allen White, Brian Davis, and Erin Stellato coming from Cleveland. Joey D’Antoni from Philadelphia, Kevin Boles from Alabama, Rob Volk from Atlanta, Tamera Clark from Tennessee, and more. I see amazing sessions on Azure, T-SQL, execution plans, extended events, XML, Hekaton, and more. The biggest challenge will be choosing between sessions.

    I’ll be delivering my branding session, at 9:15, so hopefully I can convince a few of you to network and brand during the day.

    If you are anywhere near Indianapolis, which means Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, even Chicago or St Louis, I hope you make the drive and come attend.

    And please be sure to stop and say hi and shake my hand. It’s always a pleasure.

  • On the Go

    So much for limiting events. There was a time in May when I had nothing scheduled as far as speaking goes.

    Now I have 12 events, and 9 trips in the pipeline. At least a few are local, with just an hour or so drive to speak.

    Crazy and I still need to plan a trip with my wife in there somewhere.