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Well, at least it helps us keep our top frequent-flyer status on United :-)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the line-up &#8211; see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/upcomingconferences.asp\">Upcoming Events page<\/a> for all the abstracts (including those from Bob Beauchemin and Stacia Misner too).<\/p>\n<p><strong>TechEd EMEA IT Pro, November 3-7, Barcelona, Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re still working with the TechEd team to finalize the content we&#8217;ll be delivering but it&#8217;s looking like the same three sessions from TechEd US, plus a bunch of new ones and Instructor-Led-Labs<\/li>\n<li>Sessions (at least):\n<ul>\n<li>Are Your Indexing Strategies Working?<\/li>\n<li>Corruption Survival Techniques: From Detection to Recovery<\/li>\n<li>Essential Database Maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SQL Server Connections Fall, November 9-14, Las Vegas, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the second of the twice-yearly SQL Connections conferences that\u00a0Kimberly and I\u00a0Co-Chair<\/li>\n<li>Workshops:\n<ul>\n<li>November 9: Pre-pre-con: <span style=\"font-size: small;\">Database Best Practices for the Involuntary DBA<\/span><\/li>\n<li>November 10: Pre-con: <span style=\"font-size: small;\">Relational Data Warehousing: Leveraging Key Features of SQL Server 2005\/2008<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sessions:\n<ul>\n<li>Index Internals and Usage<\/li>\n<li>Essential Database Maintenance<\/li>\n<li>DBCC CHECKDB: The Definitive Guide<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Rabbit: Interactive Q&amp;A on Database Maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PASS Community Summit 2008, November 17-21, Seattle, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As unbelievable as this may be, I&#8217;ve *never* been to PASS before, even in the few times it was in Seattle &#8211; something always conflicted. Kimberly hasn&#8217;t been since 2005 so it&#8217;ll be cool for us both to be there this year.<\/li>\n<li>Workshop:\n<ul>\n<li>November 18: Database Maintenance: From Planning to Practice to Post-Mortem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spotlight Session:\n<ul>\n<li>Corruption Survival Techniques: From Detection to Recovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; September, October, and November\u00a0are going to be a whirlwind this year &#8211; after 3 weeks in the UK and Ireland in September, teaching\u00a0and the\u00a0San Francisco Power Workshop\u00a0in October, we have three back-to-back conference weeks\u00a0in Barcelona, Las Vegas, and back to Seattle!\u00a0Hey &#8211; who booked that schedule?!?!?! 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