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March 29, 2013

Upcoming Appearances and Online Events

Happy Friday, everyone. We’re currently in the process of updating the calendar/schedule functionaliy here on the site, so I figured I’d let you know where Ben and I will be over the next month or two. A few events are pending and not here, but hopefully we’ll see you in person or virutally soon!

Wednesday, April 3
I will be presenting a webinar for Penton along with Melissa Data’s Joseph Vertido entitled Why Data Quality Matters – A DBA and IT Perspective. I’m looking forward to this as this is a topic near and dear to what I do with customers, but you don’t see me talk about a lot.

This is a free online event, so for more information and to sign up, click here.

Saturday, April 6
I will be presenting at SQL Saturday 203 – Boston. I’ll be delivering two different sessions back-to-back. First up at 2:45 PM is “Business Continuity: The Real Reason for HA and DR” and then winding up the day at 4 PM “Demystifying Clustering for the DBA“. It’ll be nice to be speaking to a hometown crowd since I’m often on the road somewhere.

This is a free event outside of the $10 lunch charge. The event is full, but get yourself on the waiting list – you never know! SQL Saturday will be held at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, MA (the regular one with the MTC, not the research facility), which is located at 1 Cambridge Center.

To register and find more information including the entire schedule and lineup of speakers, click on the link above.

Saturday, April 13
I will be presenting at SQL Saturday 211 – Chicago which is held just outside of the city at DeVry University (1221 N. Swift Rd., Addison, IL, 60101). Unlike Boston, I’m kicking off the day bright and early at 9 AM with “Demystifying Clustering for the DBA“. I think this is the third or fourth SQL Saturday in a row I’ve attended in Chicago, and it’s always a great event. The lineup of speakers looks great.

Like the Boston SQL Saturday, this is a free event outside of the $10 lunch charge. As of today, you can still register for the event. What are you waiting for? Go click on the link above.

Monday, April 22
I will be presenting to the the Northern Virginia (NOVA) SQL Server User Group. I always enjoy speaking at user groups, and I’m sure this will be no exception. So if you’re in the greater Washington DC/Northern Virginia/Maryland area, come on out.

Tuesday, April 23
Ben will be doing a free one hour webinar session on performance tuning – more details to come.

Thursday, May 9
Ben will be doing a full day webinar focused on SQL Server performance entitled Truth, Art, and the Zen of SQL Server Performance Tuning. Performance tuning is obviously a bigger topic than the hour Ben has on April 23rd, and this day he’ll get to go into much more depth. The day will be broken up into three sessions:

Where Is My Performance Issue?
Remove Your SQL Server Performance Barriers
Index Tuning Foundations

This is not a free event; the cost is $199 which is a bargain considering you’re getting a full day’s worth of good content and can interact with Ben live. Click here for the complete information (including full abstracts) and to register.

July 31, 2012

So What’s on the Dance Card?

It looks like the next few months are going to be busier than ever. I feel like I should be asking “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”, but substituting either my name or Ben’s in. Besides our normal docket of customer work, below is a list of where you can find us over the next few months. We may add a few things to the plate, but the list is everything we know of right now. Keep your eye towards our Upcoming Events page for the latest info!

SQL Saturday 158

Both Ben and I will be speaking this weekend at SQL Saturday 158 in New York City. SQLHA is sponsoring the event as well. Ben’s talk (“Surviving Your Peak Database Load”) is at 1:45PM, and my session (“SQL Server Dos and Don’ts: Keys to DBA Nirvana”) is at 4:15. I’m super excited to be doing a non-HA talk which is rare for me.

SQL Server Foundations 2012

Ben and I will be doing a two day eLearning Seminar for Penton and SQL Server Pro on SQL Server basics on September 11 and 13. It will be six sessions over the two days (three per day). This is similar to the event I did for them last year and is in the process of being updated; we’re just not rehashing the same old stuff. Full information on what we’ll be talking about (including pricing and registration) can be found here.

24 Hours of PASS

Ben and I will be doing a session at 24HOP. PASS hasn’t announced any dates or times, but we’ll be there!

PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012

I’ll be heading back to Europe for the second time this year to speak at PASS SQLRally 2012 Nordic. I’ll be doing a pre-conference seminar (“AlwaysOn: Maximizing High Availability with SQL Server 2012”) and most likely a session at some point during the other two days.

PASS Summit

Ben and I will also be at Summit in November. He and I will be doing a pre-conference session on Tuesday, November 6th entitled “Real-World System Design for the DBA: Private Cloud and SQL as a Service”. Ben will be blogging soon with a longer description of what we’re going to cover since we’ve had a few questions (mainly due to the fact we were limited in the number of characters we could use). I’ll also be co-presenting “The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Deploying AlwaysOn Availability Groups” with Mike Steineke and David Smith during the Summit (time and day not scheduled yet).

Training in Australia

In conjunction with Wardy IT Solutions, I’m going Down Under to deliver two weeks of training after PASS Summit. The class is a 4-day mission critical one complete with labs in both Brisbane (November 19 – 22) and Canberra (November 26 – 29). There’s an Early Bird discount until August 30, 2012. Click here to register for Brisbane and here for Canberra. The full course outline and details can be found here in PDF format. I’m very excited about this opportunity – both weeks should be great. I’m starting to talk with some other folks about other deliveries in 2013 of the course with labs outside of Australia, so stay tuned. If you would like to see it in your area or want to host it, contact us.

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