Conferences - Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Conferences category.

devLINK a Huge Success

Where can you spend $100 and get three full days of technical training? devLINK of course. devLINK  2010 was held this past week in Nashville (August 5-7), and had 800 registered attendees. There were over 150 session in 10 different tracks, with 71 different speakers. While the focus of the event was more towards developers, ...read more


SQLServerCentral.com Track at SQL Server Connections November 1-5, 2010

November will be a busy time of the year for many SQL Server DBAs as they head off to the PASS Community Summit (November 8-11) or SQL Server Connections (November 1-5) for training. One of the things I have noticed, after attending the PASS Summit for 9 years now, and SQL Server Connections for 4 ...read more


Speaking at Nashville, St Louis, and Baton Rouge in August

In August, I will be presenting at the following events: DevLINK, August 5-7, 2010 How and When to Use Indexed Views Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Using SQL Trace Essential DBA Skills: Introduction to Graphical Execution Plans St. Louis SQL Server Users Group, August 11, 2010 Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Using SQL Trace Essential ...read more


SQLBits 7 to be Held in York September 30 – October 2, 2010

SQLBits—The 7 Wonders of SQL Conference—will be held in York, England, September 30 through October 2, 2010. SQLBits is the largest SQL Server conference held in Europe, and this three-day event will be held at York University, allowing up to 500 SQL Server professionals to attend.


TechEd Impressions: Day Four

TechEd is finally over, and I have been overwhelmed by attending 20 different sessions over the last four days. As with any conference I attend, my head is swimming with a lot of new information that I hope I can retain over the long term.


TechEd Impressions: Day Three

Today I attended four regular sessions, plus a special lunch session for Microsoft MVPs. The sessions I attended varied a lot in quality, although there were two sessions that stood out. Both of these sessions were by the same speaker, Sunil Agarwal, a Program Manager in the Microsoft SQL Server Storage Engine Group. His first ...read more


TechEd Impressions: Day Two

It’s only day two of the four day conference, and I am already exhausted from attending sessions from 8:00 AM to 6:15 PM, and walking, literally miles, to get back and forth between sessions. The New Orleans convention center is about .6 miles long, and it can take 10-15 minutes to walk between session rooms. ...read more


Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010

TechEd 2010 started today, June 7, and will run through Thursday, June 10, 2010. In the past TechEd has run for five days (or ten days as an experiment a few years ago). At only four days this year, this TechEd is the shortest of the four TechEd events I have attended. Apparently reducing the ...read more


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