Tag presenting

They See Things Differently

Every once in a while, I’ll be talking with a friend about presentations and they mention that they really like the visual flow or the artwork or something about the presentation. After I get over being flattered (trust me, it’s easy to do), we’ll start talking about how I came up with the material in [...]

Speaking at SQL Saturday Nashville

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It’s Going to be a Busy Week
This week is going to be an incredibly busy one. On Saturday I’m very honored to be presenting twice at SQL Saturday Nashville.
Fundamentals of SQL Server Internals: Want to know what makes SQL Server tick? Ever wonder what SQL Server is doing when you run a query? [...]

SQL Saturday 42 Musings

SQL Saturday 42 has been and gone. I don’t have a ton to say, but I wanted to try to post my thoughts on the event before they were completely gone from my mind.
The people who put this event on – Dave Schutz, Stuart Johnson, Marc Kuyper, Jim Stoltz, and John Jakubowski – deserve a [...]

Free Training – SQL Saturday 42

Good news! I’m speaking at SQL Saturday 42 this Saturday. Got nothing to do? Head on down to Goodwill Columbus at 1331 Edgehill Rd, Columbus, OH. Got something to do? Cancel it.
I’m excited about the presentations I’m giving – I haven’t given the indexing presentation in a long time and it should be a lot [...]

What the heck are you people talking about?

The call for speakers is closed and the selection committees are about to begin reviewing the abstracts. Before they get started, here are a few little pieces of trivia about the sessions.
Keep in mind that I have done minimal cleansing on this data so it’s going to be a bit messy and unreliable for anything [...]