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Tag: travel

  • Speaking at SQL Saturday #286–Louisville

    I’m taking a short break from my sabbatical to head to Louisville for SQL Saturday #286 to deliver a couple of sessions. I’ve been invited and accepted to Louisville twice before and had to cancel for family reasons. I’ve felt bad, especially as my sister-in-law lives in Louisville, so I decided I needed to just go this time.

    I’m looking forward to this event, and with a number of other cities nearby, I expect a lot of you to come out for a free day of training. I’ll be delivering my Encryption talk and then my Branding talk, so come see me if you can get over to Louisville.

    There’s also a pre-con from my colleague, Grant Fritchey, on Friday discussing performance tuning. Worth the investment in your career.

    I hope to see you there.

  • Speaking at SQL Bits XII

    I’m heading back to SQL Bits for the third time and I’m excited to be going again. I think that this is my favorite conference, hands down. The large mix of people, the incredibly welcoming hosts and the casual atmosphere make this one of the events I look forward to every year. It also means I get to swing by the Red Gate office without making a special trip.

    This year the event is in Telford, near some racetrack that’s supposed to be famous. I’m not sure if they is any tie in with the event, but who cares. Chances are you won’t want to leave SQL Bits because you’ll be alternately excited by the content and charmed by the hosts and other attendees.

    I’ll be delivering two talks at the event:

    • Continuous Integration for Databases
    • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job

    I’ve done both of these a few times and they are very popular and thought provoking. I’m hoping that the crowd enjoys them as much as I do.

    If you can make it to the UK, register today and I’d love to see you there. This is a great event, and I’m sure you’ll learn a ton and enjoy yourself while doing so.

  • Nothing Scheduled

    As of right now, my United account has no flights booked. My Hilton Honors account has no hotel rooms reserved. My National account has no car rentals to pick up.

    And I have nothing scheduled for the rest of 2014.

    For now. I suspect things will change soon, but it’s a good feeling for now.

  • Encryption in Las Vegas – SQL Saturday #295

    I enjoy Las Vegas, usually trying to see a show of some sort when I’m there. I’ll have the chance next week, when I’m in town for SQL Saturday #295 on Apr 5. It will be a fairly quick trip for me, but I’ll see if I can find something fun to do. Perhaps Penn and Teller.

    The first SQL Saturday in Nevada (knocking another state off the master list) will be taking place and while it’s a small event, it has a packed schedule of SQL Server experts. I’ll be talking encryption and you’ll have the chance to learn Hadoop, dimensional modeling, database design, monitoring and more. It’s an amazing lineup with many out of state speakers traveling to help the SQL Server community in Las Vegas learn more. Pat Wright, Russ Thomas, Allen White, Joey D’Antoni, Jason Horner, Tom LaRock, Reeves Smith, Tamera Clark, Mike Fal, TJay Belt, David Klee and more are on the schedule.

    This will be a fun event, and I’m looking forward to this trip, even if it will be a little quick for me. I hope you’ll join us if you’re anywhere in the Las Vegas area, and please stop me to say hi if you see me.