I started out the day with the keynote presentation with some great info on PASS and the PASS volunteers, followed by Microsoft presenting on in memory tables, and native compilation for stored procedures, described and demonstrated as “Wicked Fast”. Next I attended a fabulous presentation from Erin Stellato on Extended Events, an improved replacement for the SQL profiler. I learned …
A great turnout for the CTE book signing tonight. Enjoy the books. The scripts don’t appear to be available at the publisher site any more here is the download. Download here: Joes2Pros T-SQL Scripts
Wednesday at 6:45PM I will be doing a book signing of my Common Table Expressions Book. Joes2Pros will be giving away 30 books during this signing. Come by the Joes2Pros booth for a chance at one of the 30 CTE Books. Please come by and visit! See You There!
After registering at PASS SUMMIT 13, I had a nice surprise. I walked over to the bookstore to see what interesting new books I could find. I discovered that they had a stack of my book on Common Table Expressions. Seeing my book with the stacks of other SQL Server books was a great feeling. The book has been available …
After the red eye flight last night I finally arrived at PASS Summit 13, and picked up my registration packet. On the cab ride from the airport I had a great lecture (not much of a discussion) from the cab driver on politics and the Affordable Care Act. When I finally asked him what it was going to change for …
This year I will be attending PASS Summit 2013 in Charlotte North Carolina. It seemed like ages ago when I registered, and now just we are just a few days away from Summit 2013. This will be the first SQL conference that I have been to for some time where I will not be speaking. I am looking forward to …
The two sessions I will be presenting at DevTeach in Vancouver BC will be the following: Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server – Configuring and Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server Developers love to use SQL Server to store files, but this causes headaches for the DBA, finally a reasonable solution for file storage in SQL Server FILETABLES …
Working on my sessions for DevTeach in Vancouver in December. Read more »
Over the last month I have been studying in preparation for the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional exam which I just passed. What I loved about preparing for he CSP exam was the amount of new material that I was exposed to. Things like Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, and much more. What a great experience. Now it …
I Just Passed the Certified Scrum Professional Exam Read more »
After a recent presentation at SQL Saturday Denver on building your personal brand name presented by Steve Jones (@way0utwest). One of the things that was discussed was splitting your personal contacts from your professional contacts in the following social networks: Facebook Just close friends and family, not the people you work with. This way when friends or family say something that …