Month: July 2011

SQL Saturday 89 Pre-Con

Why am I attending Kevin Kline’s pre-con on “Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2” at SQL Saturday #89 in Atlanta on September 16th?  For starters I am a production DBA.  Sure I create SSRS reports and build ETL processes with SSIS and the like, but at the end of the day I […]

Planning a SQL Saturday

On June 8th we announced SQL Saturday 89.  The call for speakers went out to all those who had submitted sessions at a previous SQL Saturday, an alert went out to sponsors and the event was live.  Immediately emails started coming in, people started registering and sessions were being submitted.  The event really took on […]