The Fall conferences are a little earlier this year – October rather than November – and we'll be at both PASS and SQL Connections.
We hope to see you there!
PASS Summit
This year's PASS Summit is in Seattle again from October 11-14 – see here for registration details.
Kimberly and I decided not to submit workshops this year so we're only doing Spotlight Sessions. Jonathan's doing a workshop and a Spotlight Session and Stacia's doing two workshops and a panel discussion.
Here's the line-up:
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Workshops
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Extended Events Deep Dive (Jonathan)
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MDX, DAX, and DMX: An Introduction to the Languages of BI (Stacia)
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So how does the BI workload impact the database engine? (Stacia, 1/2 day)
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Spotlight Sessions
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Using Event Notifications in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Jonathan)
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Isolated Disasters in VLDBs (Kimberly)
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More DBA Mythbusters (Paul)
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Panel Discussion
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Are you a Linchpin? Career management lessons to help you become indispensible. (Stacia)
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SQL Connections
The Fall SQL Connections show will be in Las Vegas as usual, from October 30 – November 4 – see here for registration details.
We've put together a great show (Kimberly and I are the conference co-chairs) and we'll both be doing workshops and sessions, as will Stacia.
Here's the line-up:
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Workshops
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10/30: SPR201: The Foundations of a Healthy SQL Server Database (Kimberly and Paul)
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10/31: SPR202: Collaborative Business Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together (Stacia)
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10/31: SPR303: Designing for Performance and Scalability (Kimberly)
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Paul's sessions
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SQL216: More DBA Mythbusters
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SQL419: Wait Statistics: Avoiding 'Knee-Jerk' Performance Tuning
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SQL422: Advanced Recovery Techniques
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SQL225: Follow the Rabbit: Wrap-up Q&A
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Kimberly's sessions
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SQL207: Precarious? Nefarious? Strategies that Work for Nonclustered Indexes!
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SQL310: Taking the Sting Out of Statistics
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SQL313: Filtered Indexes and Filtered Statistics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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SQL225: Follow the Rabbit: Wrap-up Q&A
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Stacia's sessions
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SQL209: Managing Self-Service BI in PowerPivot for SharePoint
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SQL312: Building a BI Performance Monitoring Solution
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SQL226: Understanding BI Security Best Practices
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