{"id":628,"date":"2011-01-17T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/SQLskills-crew-at-SQL-Connections-in-March.aspx"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:41:23","slug":"sqlskills-crew-at-sql-connections-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-crew-at-sql-connections-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"SQLskills crew at SQL Connections in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The spring conferences are creeping up on us and there will be four of us at <\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">SQL Connections in Orlando, March 27-30<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;(me, Kimberly, Bob, and Brent). <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Here&#39;s what we&#39;re doing: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Workshops&nbsp;<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">3\/27: Day of Scripting: Plumbing The Depths of SQL Server \/ PowerShell Integration (Bob Beauchemin) <\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">3\/27: The Building Blocks of a Healthy and Available SQL Server (Paul and Kimberly) <\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">3\/31: Indexing Strategies and Analysis (Kimberly) <\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">3\/31: Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs (Brent Ozar) <\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Paul&#39;s Sessions<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Index Fragmentation: The Hidden Menace<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">More DBA Mythbusters<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Undocumented Tools and Trace Flags<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Follow the Rabbit: Wrap-up Q&amp;A<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Kimberly&#39;s Sessions <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">VLDB: Recovering from Isolated Disasters<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Index Internals: What You Really Need to Know!<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Optimizing Procedural Code<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Follow the Rabbit: Wrap-up Q&amp;A<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Bob&#39;s Sessions <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Expanding the Scope and Ease of Use of Query Plan Guides in SQL Server 2008<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008 and Denali<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Spatial Data &quot;Stretches Out&quot; in SQL Server Denali<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Brent&#39;s Sessions<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">BLITZ! SQL Server Takeovers<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Consolidation, Clustering, and Virtualization: Choosing Wisely<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Tuning T-SQL Step by Step<\/font>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">For more information check out the conference website:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">General details<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Workshop abstracts<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Session abstracts<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We hope to see you there!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring conferences are creeping up on us and there will be four of us at SQL Connections in Orlando, March 27-30&nbsp;(me, Kimberly, Bob, and Brent). 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