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Presenting at SQL Saturday Las Vegas

This Saturday, September 12th, 2015 I will be presenting at SQL Saturday Las Vegas. My presentation is on Database Corruption, here are the details.

When Database Corruption Strikes – Will you be ready?

Duration: 60 minutes

Track: Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment

You are working along month after month with no problems in your database. Suddenly someone reports that their query won’t run. They get an error stating “SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error“, or something even scarier. Do you know what to do now? We will walk through 3 or 4 actual corrupt databases exploring ways to go about finding and fixing the corruption. More importantly we will explore how to prevent further data loss at the time corruption occurs. Learn what things you should do to protect yourself when corruption strikes. Learn what to avoid that will make things worse. You will leave with a checklist of steps to take when you encounter corruption. By the end of this session you will be ready to take on corruption, one database at a time.

SQL Saturday Las Vegas

The presentation is scheduled for 11:00 am to Noon in room 2767 at the College of Southern Nevada campus in Vegas.

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An Awesome Day at SQL Saturday Redmond

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Yesterday was SQL Saturday Redmond. It was a great day, I learned lots, met some great new people, and had a chance to catch up with some old friends. When most people hear about SQL Saturday for the first time, they probably think to themselves “spend all day on a Saturday in technical presentations”, however SQL Saturday is much more than that. The presentations all all great, don’t get me wrong here, but the biggest value that I see is in the people that you get to know, and the things you can learn from the vendors. There were at least 6 people that I know online through Twitter, Fitbit, LinkedIn and other online sites that I had the opportunity to meet in person for the first time this weekend.

SQLSat393FriendsPicture Credit: Thanks Jimmy May (@aspiringgeek)

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