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SQLCruise: The Trident
Move over Poseidon. I’m hitting the sea with my own trident (assuming I can get it through the TSA). My trident is made from the culmination of my favorite three things. My wife, SQL Server, and cruising. Let me explain. Back in October of last year, Idera ran a contest called the “Get a life…
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SQLRally 2012 Registration Open
The Professional Association for SQL Server and the North Texas SQL Server User Group have been working hard behind the scenes to bring SQLRally 2012 in Dallas Texas to the SQL Community. We are excited to announce that event registration opens November 30, 2011. Make sure to get registered soon and take advantage of the…
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Summit 2011 Day 5 LIVE
I will be live blogging the SQLPASS Summit keynote again today. Today’s keynote will be delivered by community favorite Dr. David Dewitt. Rick Heiges opens us up and introduces a special musical number by Rob Farley and Buck Woody. It was hilarious with a special lyrical shout out to Paul Randal. Rick is now walking…
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Summit 2011 Day 3 SQL2012
I was chosen to sit at the blogger table and live blog the keynote tomorrow so plan to be here at 8:15pt and I’ll refresh the post that day as often as possible. I may not be at the table today, but that won’t stop me from blogging anyway. Keynote Rushab Mehta starts us out…
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Summit 2011 Day 0
Today was my travel day. I don’t travel much at all so it’s always an exciting adventure for me. I left the house with plenty of time and made it to the Parking Spot in about 40-45 minutes. If you travel out of DFW international airport I highly suggest using these guys for parking. The airport…
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Summit 2011 Day 2
This morning I headed over to Top Pot doughnuts to hang out with Andy Warren, Steve Jones, Bill Fellows, David Fargo, Tim Radney, and many others. It was a nice time of networking and a good small crowd. The doughnuts were good with a large and interesting selection and the coffee was good as well.…
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Summit 2011 Day 1
Morning I got up at 6am PT this morning, got ready, got some coffee from Starbucks, and made it to the convention center by 7AM. I had no problem following the signs to registration and there was no wait in getting registered. I wish I had gotten in early enough yesterday to make registration, but no…
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Summit 2011 Day 4 LIVE!
Today I will be LIVE blogging the keynote from the PASS Summit 2011 conference. Keep your browser tuned in here and refresh often. Today’s keynote is being delivered by Quentin Clark. Quentin is Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of the SQL Server database systems group. I will also try to tweet updates as I can so make…
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I’m a PASS Regional Mentor!
This past weekend I was speaking at SQLSaturday #90 in Oklahoma City. During the event I had the pleasure of sitting down and getting to know Karla Landrum (PASS Community Evangelist). We met each other at a SQLSaturday in Houston earlier this year, but we didn’t have much time to chat. We had a great…
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Speaking at PASS DBA Virtual Chapter
I will be speaking for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on August 24th, 2011 at 11AM CT. I will be delivering my presentation on Central Management Server and Policy Based Management. If you have not checked out the virtual chapters that PASS has, then you need to Go Check Them Out. These chapters are designed to fill…
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T-SQL Tuesday on Wednesday
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday has been moved to Wednesday. The topic this month is “crap code”. This is a great topic to showcase what not to do and see some actual bad code. After all we tend to learn best from our mistakes. However, I’m not going to show bad code. I want talk about code…
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SQLRally 2012 Dallas
It’s Official !! The host for SQLRally 2012 has officially been given to Dallas and the North Texas SQL Server User Group. NTSSUG is elated to have been chosen as the host for this event. We have hosted three SQLSaturdays in the last 12 months, so we are prepared to dig in our heals. Well,…