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UPDATE (April 17, 2013): We just finished our FIRST SQLintersection conference with wild success. We’re currently working on our next event – scheduled for October 27-30, 2013. More posts coming soon but it looks like we have the right idea from two comments\u00a0I received just today:<\/span><\/p>\n

On Twitter (11:50am PT today) from\u00a0Michelle Ufford\u00a0(@sqlfool):<\/strong> Colleague who attended #SQLintersection<\/span><\/a>\u00a0said it was best conference he’s ever attended cc@KimberlyLTripp<\/span><\/a>\u00a0@PaulRandal<\/span><\/a>\u00a0@Kendra_Little<\/span><\/a>\u00a0@BrentO<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In Email (today) from Geoff Lister:<\/strong> I had to write and tell you that last week’s SQL intersection was fantastic. I learned so much, and have a whole load of new questions for Google and things to research. \u00a0It was a real eye opener to aspects of SQL\u00a0I didn’t even know to ask about before\u00a0or did not realize how important they are. \u00a0Much of what you gave me I was able to implement during the conference to my production applications and have seen real performance gains and have some happy DBAs! In\u00a0 particular, you gave me a much great appreciation of why the cache is so important and how to understand the execution plans a bit better and identify parameter sniffing issues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"I'll_Be_There\"<\/a>I’ve been speaking and presenting at conferences for years (16+ years to be exact) and while I’ve had a great time at all of these conferences (some more than others :), I’ve always felt like there was something missing. Nothing seemed to help bring cohesion across the sessions. Nothing really helped the attendees and speakers interact better. How do attendees really get their problems solved? Well, now I get to make those decisions and changes! Why? Because we’ve designed a NEW conference that helps intersect the right information with the right people. Our new show\u00a0brings together real-world experts that present problem solving techniques and technologies that you can implement today; we’re calling it SQLintersection<\/a> (#SQLintersection).<\/p>\n

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SQLintersection: It’s all about ROI<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

First and foremost, people want better performance. If your servers perform well you can process more data – you can get more done. But, what you need to do to get better performance varies. Sometimes it’s hardware – which might be an easier change, and sometimes it’s design\/architecture – which might be significantly more complex. Sometimes it’s little tweaks – adding some indexes, removing some redundant indexes, updating statistics, adding more statistics, changing a procedure and\/or the way that some of your procedures are cached, sometimes it’s all about IO, sometimes it’s the execution plans and the queries themselves. But, the biggest challenge is knowing where to look and knowing where and what these changes are, how to make them and then finally, implementing them with the lowest amount of downtime and data loss that’s possible.<\/p>\n

That’s what we’ve done. We’ve put together a conference that’s primarily focused around performance, scalability, and troubleshooting but we haven’t forgotten realiability\/automation. <\/strong><\/p>\n

SQLintersection: Track Hosts add interaction and information!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

To bring cohesion to our event, each of our tracks will have a host (or an MC, per se) that will present a session or two as well as stay in their track room to introduce each session over a theme (each track will have a theme for each day). The host will be available to answer questions, help you\u00a0interact with the right speakers\u00a0and just generally give you insight that you can’t get other ways. Right now we have 3 track hosts: Brent Ozar<\/a>, Aaron Bertrand<\/a> and I will each host a track and we’ll be available in our track room all day (between sessions and for much of lunch as well) to really help you get your problems solved. And, we’ll end each track with an open Q&A panel with speakers from the track. You’ll hear great sessions and you’ll have multiple opportunities to interact with expert speakers, other attendees, and get your problems solved<\/strong>!<\/strong><\/em> And, in addition to three full conference days, there are five full-day workshops (2 days prior to the conference and 1 day after the conference) from which to choose and over 30 technical sessions mostly in the 200-400 level range.<\/p>\n

SQLintersection: What about the speakers?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

I’m so excited about this lineup. All of these speakers are top-rated, SQL experts that have been around in this field for years but are still focused on consulting. Every speaker is a SQL Server MVP (with the except of the vendor\/Microsoft speakers – but, I don’t think anyone’s going to question Conor or Bob’s SQL knowledge :)) and some are Microsoft Certified Masters in SQL Server. But, no matter what – ALL are focused on providing the most ROI that’s possible in their session(s) and\/or their workshops. Check out this list of speakers:<\/p>\n