{"id":480,"date":"2011-02-14T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/kimberly\/post\/We-love-you-too!.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-11T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T07:04:43","slug":"we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/we\/","title":{"rendered":"We <3 you too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\">Just today, Jen McCown (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/\" class=\"broken_link\">blog<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MidnightDBA\/\" class=\"broken_link\">twitter<\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\">)&nbsp;of the Midnight DBA team blogged about their recent poll &#8211; who in the SQL community <strong>&quot;does it right&quot;<\/strong> in terms of community involvement. What&#39;s great is that the results were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/2011\/02\/the-results-are-in-what-tech-companies-are-doing-it-right\/\" class=\"broken_link\">just published<\/a>&nbsp;and SQLskills has come in second to SQL Sentry for community involvement. This is great news and we&#39;re happy to see that you think so too! (<em>especially on Valentine&#39;s Day <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/kimberly\/editors\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/images\/smiley-embarassed.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Embarassed\" title=\"Embarassed\" \/><\/em>) <font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><\/p>\n<p>\nRead Paul&#39;s post about our free resources and our exclusive mailing list in this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/community-community-community-community\/\">Community, community, community, community&#8230;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, along the same lines &#8211; we&#39;re continuing our Community involvement (with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsentry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">SQL Sentry<\/a>) by hosting some free evening presentations while we deliver our Master Immersion Events in Dallas. We have somewhat limited space so we&#39;ve created free &quot;tickets&quot; that you can print for the event. If you&#39;re interested check out these events and details:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Tuesday evening (Feb 22 and Mar 15):<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #953735\">Query Tuning with SQL Sentry Plan Explorer<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong><span style=\"color: #953735\"><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<font size=\"+0\">\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<font size=\"+0\">\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Learn how to use this revolutionary <strong><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">FREE<\/span><\/strong> tool from SQL Sentry to wrangle even the scariest query plans. This session will cover key differences between Plan Explorer and SSMS, what to look for in estimated and actual plans, and various features that will help you get the most out of the tool.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"color: #1f497d\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Register for this FREE event (in Dallas, TX) here: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlskillstue.eventbrite.com\/\">http:\/\/sqlskillstue.eventbrite.com\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"color: #1f497d\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Wednesday evening (Feb 23 and Mar 16):<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #953735\">Optimizing Performance with SQL Sentry v6<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong> This brand new release from SQL Sentry introduces several unique and cutting edge features, including active query plan capture for heavy SQL, plan analysis using the integrated version of Plan Explorer, additional Plan Explorer features made possible by active capture, historical query plan analysis, VLF problem detection, and more.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Register for this FREE event (in Dallas, TX) here: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlskillswed.eventbrite.com\/\">http:\/\/sqlskillswed.eventbrite.com\/<\/a>&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nAnd, we plan to deliver a session at the <a href=\"http:\/\/northtexas.sqlpass.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">North Texas SQL Server User Group<\/a> on March 17 (<em>I wonder if we can get green beer in Texas?<\/em>)\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nWe hope to see you at one of our upcoming events and if none of these work for you, be sure to join our exclusive mailing list by clicking <a href=\"mailto:paul@sqlskills.com?subject=Subscribe mailing list\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nThanks and Happy Valentine&#39;s Day!<br \/>\nKimberly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just today, Jen McCown (blog|twitter)&nbsp;of the Midnight DBA team blogged about their recent poll &#8211; who in the SQL community &quot;does it right&quot; in terms of community involvement. 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