Archive for May, 2010

#SQLSat35: Dallas 2010 notes

I realize that it’s been an entire week since SQLSaturday 35 in Dallas and that’s an eternity in the blogosphere, but I’ve been recently reminded of a very painful lesson: you pay for taking days off.  Two days out of the office to go to Dallas cost me much more than two days worth of [...]

May 30, 2010 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#sqlsat35 looking ahead to the weekend

This weekend I’ll be traveling to the DFW metropolitan area to attend SQLSaturday #35; I’m very excited about it.  I didn’t know if I’d be able to attend this weekend (had to trade kid time with the ex-wife), so I missed the call for speakers.  I am looking forward to actually attending sessions and bumping [...]

May 21, 2010 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Conferences, PASS, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

Speaking today: PASS AppDev Virtual Chapter

I know it’s short notice, but to be honest, I totally forgot about this until a couple of weeks ago.  I’ll be presenting today at noon eastern on a LiveMeeting for the Application Developers Virtual Chapter of PASS.  Deets below: “You Got XML In My Database? What’s Up With That?” May 11th 12:00 PM EDT (GMT [...]

May 11, 2010 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: PASS, SQL, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, XML

SQLSaturday #41 Wrap-up: Lessons learned from Atlanta, April 24, 2010

So this wrap-up took a little longer for me to write than I had hoped; work had piled up a bit post-con, and finals were going on in the class I teach part-time at Gainesville State College.  Nonetheless, I’ve been thinking a lot about what happened at the third SQLSaturday for AtlantaMDF, and hopefully this [...]

May 3, 2010 · stuart · 4 Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication