{"id":790,"date":"2009-09-25T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/TGIF-in-Dublin.aspx"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:41:27","slug":"tgif-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/tgif-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We&#39;ve had a great week here in Dublin teaching our first public Immersion Event for a while &#8211; nearly 50 attendees spent the week with us&nbsp;exploring internals, performance, indexing, maintenance, and HA. Today&#39;s the last day where I&#39;m teaching my favorite module on consistency checking and corruption recovery &#8211; excellent way to spend a Friday! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Yesterday was the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Guinness brewery by Arthur Guinness. The company organized a worldwide toast to Arthur at 17.59 Dublin time &#8211; brilliant marketing campaign &#8211; I wonder how many million extra pints of Guinness were drunk last night? Here&#39;s a photo Bob Duffy (our good friend and fellow SQL Server MVP) from our&nbsp;event partners <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prodata.ie\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Prodata<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> sinking a nice cold pint after spending the day with us in class &#8211; Kimberly even tried a sip!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/9\/smallp1020962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Tomorrow Kimberly and I fly over to Poland to take part in the 2009 Microsoft Technology Summit (and check out some of the excellent old architecture) &#8211; a new country for both of us.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Cheers! <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;ve had a great week here in Dublin teaching our first public Immersion Event for a while &#8211; nearly 50 attendees spent the week with us&nbsp;exploring internals, performance, indexing, maintenance, and HA. 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