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I’m gearing up for my first SQLskills Immersion Event of the year, Immersion Event for Developers (IEDEV) in Tampa on Feb 17-21. This one is

I was about to add a new blog entry, (coming soon) and realized that it’s been *months* since I blogged last, I’ve been rather busy

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be in Stockholm Mar 12-13 as a speaker in AddSkills’ Expertseminarium program. I’ll be doing 2 days full of

Lucky me, I’ll be speaking at DevWeek in London again this year. The festivities start off with pre-cons on March 4, I’ll do a whole

Returned from SQLServerDays in Belgium last week. Had a wonderful time, hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks! Samples/demos are posted on

I'm honored to be invited to speak at SQLServerDays, Nov 19-20, in Schelle Belgium, just outside of Antwerp. I've been to Belgium before, but this

The demos from my TechEd talks in Orlando and in Amsterdam are posted on the SQLskills website under Resources. Sorry for the delay. TechEd Amsterdam

SQL Server Immersion Events are coming up in August. I deal with two different groups of people, developers and DBAs, on a variety of topics.

As I'm getting ready for my week-long SQLskills Immersion Event in Chicago next week, I got word that the demos from my events in Europe

Thanks to all the folks who attended my sessions at DevWeek, SQLBits, and SQL Saturday Dublin. Hope that you enjoyed the sessions. It was really

Starting the middle of next week I'm about to embark on a series of speaking/teaching engagements in Europe. Although I've mentioned some of these before,

Just confirmed that I'll be speaking at TechDays 2012 NL in Den Haag. I'll be speaking on Feb 16th and 17th, and I'm really looking forward to

I've had the good fortune to be invited back to Stockholm as part of Addskills Expertseminarium Series. This seminar, An In-Depth Look at Developer Features

Just back from a small hiatus and getting my schedule together for the first half of the year. One thing I'm really looking forward to

Got to take some time out from research and writing because yesterday Paul Randal announced SQLskills' first series of SQL Server Immersion training classes for

After talking with folks about the SQLskills DBA Immersion training, one thing that always comes up is the fact that database developers feel left out.

You may have wondered what happened to the technical blog entries lately. Since January (and actually including January) its been constant traveling. In the month

Just realized that there's less than a week until my precon on SQL Server stored procedure and application performance at DevWeek 2011 in London. It's been

Next week I'm heading to Stockholm, Sweden to present a two-day seminar next Thursday and Friday  (March 10-11) on "Writing High Performance SQL Server Database

I'll be making my first trip to sunny Stockholm, Sweden in March, to do a two-day seminar on 10-11 March, as part of Addskills' Expertseminarium

Some intersting things happened in the SQL Server certification space while I was away. Joe Sack announced A New Path to Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server

Last week I wrote about presenting at SQLConnections, but forgot that the week immediately afterwards is TechEd Europe in Berlin. So…another chance for shameless self-promotion

It's just about another month until this fall's SQL Server Connections conference on Nov 1-4 in Las Vegas. I thought I'd give some background as

This happened about a month ago. I'd meant to post earlier, but got busy… My old friends (well, the friendships are old, I'm actually the

After a fairly quiet first half of the summer, I've done quite a bit of traveling lately. But, as Joe Celko or someone once said,

Last week I was at TechEd in New Orleans, presenting, manning the SQL Server Security and Managability station, meeting with friends and business associates, and,

I had a great time at SQLConnections last week, and got to talk to a lot of the attendees and speakers during lunches and breaks. It was

No, the secret word for tonight is not "mudshark", although it does begin with the letter M. It's modeling. SQL Server data can be modeled

I had a great time at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week. Spent a lot of time in the SQL Server booth, meeting, greeting, and

Last night (here in Europe) I started to receive notices about SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP3 being available for MSDN/Technet customers. Among the list of

I've been remiss, October 2009 was the first month with no blog entries in a long while. I'm been heads down, working on some projects

I've found out that a few of my talks have been accepted for TechEd 2009 Europe, which will take place this year in Berlin, Germany,

I'm speaking at the Portland SQL Server User Group meeting this month about What's New in the SQL Server World. I'll be talking about upcoming

Went through 2 years worth of blog entries looking for comments to approve. Sorry that I've been remiss in doing that. I have to approve

The latest "chain letter" type topic to wend it's way through the blogsphere is "things you now know" and I've been tagged. Here's some things

I was browsing through MSDN magazine (the paper version) today and noticed an ad for the upcoming SQLConnections conference in Orlando. I'm doing three sessions

If you seem to be getting tons of my old blog entries, it's because I've gone back through all of them and added categories. All

For those folks who wrote comments on the blog posts and wondered why they do not appear…. they should appear now. When our new blogging

End of the conference season 2008. At least for me, my friends in Belgium are looking forward to their SQL Server Day, coming up soon.

I’m up early this morning for a repeat of my T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 talk. Things really went well for the last two days,

Today is day 1 of TechEd/ITForum in Barcelona. I have a bit less hectic of a workload at this one, a total of 4 sessions,

Whew! I had a full week at TechEd Barcelona, just getting around to finishing up writing about it. It was great to get out and

Today, I’m finishing up my (many) talks at TechEd/Developers’ Barcelona with a breakout on best practices for transactions and isolation and leading an interactive discussion

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’m changing to multiple best practices session in a single day. In the morning, I’ll be speaking about T-SQL query plans and “why

Today is day of SQLCLR (that is, use of .NET CLR code in SQL Server) for me at TechEd/Developers in Barcelona. I’m doing two talks

This week I’m at TechEd/Developers Barcelona. I arrived Saturday and I’m always delighted, being a Portland Oregon resident, to see the sun, even in winter.

11:00AM: I’m sitting in the lounge room at TechEd Hong Kong, getting ready to do my first talk on SQL Server. It’s an interesting setup

Now that Kim and Paul have each posted about it and even published some pictures, I guess its time for me to send out a heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS