Category Archives: Conferences

devLINK a Huge Success

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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, there was a Database Platforms and Development track that included many prominent speakers, including Kevin Kline, Joe Webb, Jeremiah Peschka, Joe Kuemerle, Jason Follas, Louis Davidson, Dennis Bottjer, Philip Japikse, and Brad McGehee.

If you were unable to attend, or can’t get enough SQL Server training, there will be a SQL Saturday in Nashville on August 21, 2010.

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

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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 DBA Skills: Introduction to Graphical Execution Plans

Baton Rouge SQL Saturday, August 14, 2010

  • Best Practices Every SQL Server DBA Must Know
  • Database Maintenance Essentials

If you are attending, be sure to stop me and say hello.

TechEd Impressions: Day Three

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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 session was on “Strategies to Get Maximum Concurrency for Your Workload in Microsoft SQL Server” and his second was on “Microsoft SQL Server Data Compression: Experience and Changes”.

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TechEd Impressions: Day Two

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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. Crowding and human traffic jams are still a major problem, and the more I observe, it appears that most of the problem is related to poor design of the convention center itself.

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