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Tag: SQL in the City

  • Back Across the Pond

    SQL in the CityThis coming weekend is SQL in the City – London 2012. Friday, July 13, and Saturday, July 14, I’ll be at One Wimpole Street in London. This is the Royal Society of Medicine, a fantastic venue for events near Oxford Circus. I’m looking forward to the event and the venue.

    This is the first stop in 2012 for our SQL in the City tour. These are the only two days in Europe and then we come back to the US with a 5 city, 11 day tour of the US. I’m looking forward to the events, but not the travel. It’s a lot of flights in a short time, and quite a few hotels. Fortunately I’ve consolidated down to one carry on bag and a backpack for travel, so I should be in and out of airports quickly.

    This week I fly overnight on Wednesday to arrive in London and recover on Thursday before the Friday and Saturday events. Then I’m back home on Sunday, just in time to start another week of work. A quick trip, and likely not much sightseeing for me, but if you’re up early, you might find me running down Oxford Street in the mornings.

    I’ll be delivering two sessions in London. They are both new and while I’ll link them to a few of the Red Gate tools, these aren’t sessions built around our products. These are sessions that talk about the issues of Disaster Recovery and Contained Databases.

    If you’re coming to one of the London events, please feel free to grab me and shake my hand. I’ll be the guy in the Hawaiian shirt and cowboy hat Winking smile

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  • SQL in the City – The Red Gate Tour

    Red Gate Software is announcing SQL in the City today, a series of events that will bring a free day of training to a few locations later this year. The events will be free and features specific Red Gate products and solutions to the common problems and situations that many SQL Server professionals face. It’s a mini tour with a few people from Red Gate and a few local speakers as well. We have two dates/locations scheduled so far, and we’re hoping for more soon.

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    London. July 15, 2011.

    Once again I’ll be heading across the pond. I will probably go 3-4 days early since it seems I regularly have issues flying internationally, but I’ll be there, along with fellow Microsoft MVPs Brad McGehee (blog | @bradmcgehee) and Grant Fritchey (blog | @gfritchey). There will be a few Red Gate people and MVP Mladen Prajdić is going to be giving a talk as well. We will be at One Wimpole St, wherever that is in London. Hopefully someone will ensure I arrive at the right place.

    It’s a full day of SQL training and networking, giving you the chance to pick one of two tracks and learn some development tricks and tips, or come over to my track and learn how administrators deal with the problems they face on a regular basis. The agenda has a variety of topics that you’ll want to see. I’ll be doing the Preparation for Disaster talk, showing you some of the issues you might face at work and how to prepare for them, and recover from large and small disasters. It will feature some Red Gate tools that speed up your problem solving.

    There are some other great sessions, and if you will be in London on July 15, 2011, register for the event.

    The City of Angels

    sqlcitylaWe’ll do it again on Oct 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, just before DevConnections. Brad, Grant, and I will be in the City of Angels for a Friday event and probably heading out to enjoy a few drinks that evening.

    The agenda is similar, though Mladen isn’t making the trip across the water  (lucky guy). Instead we have MVP and MCM Denny Cherry, expert on hardware, virtualization, and security in SQL Server joining us to talk encryption and how you should protect your data.

    This event will be at the Skirball Cultural Center in the Santa Monica mountains. A great location, and one I’m looking forward to visiting.

    If you’ll be in LA, please register and come see us.