SQLskills crew at SQL Connections in March

The spring conferences are creeping up on us and there will be four of us at SQL Connections in Orlando, March 27-30 (me, Kimberly, Bob, and Brent).

Here's what we're doing:

• Workshops 
  • 3/27: Day of Scripting: Plumbing The Depths of SQL Server / PowerShell Integration (Bob Beauchemin)
  • 3/27: The Building Blocks of a Healthy and Available SQL Server (Paul and Kimberly)
  • 3/31: Indexing Strategies and Analysis (Kimberly)
  • 3/31: Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs (Brent Ozar)
• Paul's Sessions
  • Index Fragmentation: The Hidden Menace
  • More DBA Mythbusters
  • Undocumented Tools and Trace Flags
  • Follow the Rabbit: Wrap-up Q&A
• Kimberly's Sessions
  • VLDB: Recovering from Isolated Disasters
  • Index Internals: What You Really Need to Know!
  • Optimizing Procedural Code
  • Follow the Rabbit: Wrap-up Q&A
• Bob's Sessions
  • Expanding the Scope and Ease of Use of Query Plan Guides in SQL Server 2008
  • Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008 and Denali
  • Spatial Data "Stretches Out" in SQL Server Denali
• Brent's Sessions
  • BLITZ! SQL Server Takeovers
  • Consolidation, Clustering, and Virtualization: Choosing Wisely
  • Tuning T-SQL Step by Step

For more information check out the conference website:

• General details
• Workshop abstracts
• Session abstracts

We hope to see you there!