{"id":937,"date":"2013-02-27T07:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/joe\/?p=937"},"modified":"2013-02-27T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:52:05","slug":"sqlintersection-unashamed-database-engine-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/joe\/sqlintersection-unashamed-database-engine-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"SQLIntersection: Unashamed Database Engine Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the week of April 8th, in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, I\u2019ll be delivering a few sessions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/devintersection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SQLIntersection conference<\/a> along with some pretty incredible company, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron Bertrand, Sr. Consultant, SQL Sentry, Inc. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlperformance.com\/author\/abertrand\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronBertrand\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Andrew J. Kelly, Mentor, SolidQ [<a href=\"http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/andrew_kelly\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gunneyk\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Bob Ward, Principal Architect Escalation Engineer, Microsoft [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/psssql\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bobwardms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Brent Ozar, Brent Ozar Unlimited [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentO\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Conor Cunningham, Principal Architect, SQL Server, Microsoft [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/conor_cunningham_msft\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a>]\n<li>Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarydba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GFritchey\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Jeremiah Peschka, Brent Ozar Unlimited [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeschkaJ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Kendra Little, Managing Director, Brent Ozar Unlimited [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KendraLittle\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Kevin Farlee, SQL Program Manager, Microsoft [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a>]\n<li>Kevin Kline, Director of Engineering Services, SQL Sentry, Inc. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/kevin_kline\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeKline\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Kimberly L. Tripp, President\/Founder, SQLskills.com [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/Kimberly\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KimberlyLTripp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Paul S. Randal, CEO \/ Owner, SQLskills.com [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/Paul\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulRandal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]\n<li>Paul White, SQL Kiwi Limited [<a href=\"http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/paul_white\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/SQL_Kiwi\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a>]&nbsp;\n<li>Steve Jones, Editor, SQLServerCentral.com [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlservercentral.com\/blogs\/Steve_Jones\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WayOutwest\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One thing that I love about the lineup is its unashamed coverage of Database Engine-centric&nbsp; topics (box product and Windows Azure SQL Database).&nbsp; There will be coverage of AlwaysOn Availability Groups, SQL Server I\/O patterns, columnstore indexes, database design, performance monitoring &amp; tuning, SQL Server databases on SMB file shares, database encryption, Filestream and Filetable, table partitioning, query execution plans, indexing, virtualization, parallelism, PBM and CMS, statistics, Hekaton, parameter sniffing, and T-SQL practices.&nbsp; And with that block of database engine topics, there is still a little Hadoop thrown in for good measure (compliments Jeremiah Peschka).<\/p>\n<p>What is also cool about this conference is the inclusion of track \u201chosts\u201d.&nbsp; Aaron Bertrand, Brent Ozar and Kimberly L. 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