Full Day Storage and Virtualization Class at SQL Saturday 145

On October 12th 2012 I’ll be presenting an all day session titled “Storage and Virtualization for the DBA” as a pre-con session for SQL Saturday 145 in Nashville, TN (links to all four pre-cons can be found on the SQL Saturday 145 page).  This popular pre-con session has been presented in locations like the SQL […]

SSWUG Virtual Conference Registration Is Now Open

It’s that time of year again, it is time for the SSWUG virtual conference.  There is a great set of speakers for this virtual conference including myself, Kalen Delaney, Eric Johnson, Kevin Kline, Brian Knight, Lynn Langit, Bill Pearson and Jason Strate and more.  Every one of these speakers is a top notch speaker but […]

Security Sessions at SQL PASS 2012

The SQL PASS session list for the SQL PASS 2012 Summit has been released.  This year there are 192 sessions being presented at the SQL PASS summit.  Last year at the 2011 summit there were only a couple of sessions on SQL Server Security.  This year there are 4 sessions.  While this appears to be a […]

SQL Saturday 147 Precon (#sqlsat147)

If you are planning on attending SQL Saturday 147 down in Recife Brazil you would check out my pre-con session being held on August 24th.  In this session I’ll be talking about all of the High Availability options which are available for SQL Server 2012.  I will be talking about AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Clustering, Database […]