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Upcoming presentations

Just a quick note about some upcoming presentations: I’ll be presenting “The Social DBA: Resources for Career Building“  at SQL Saturday 51 in Nashville, TN on August 21.  Also, on September  21, I’ll be presenting on Red Gate’s SQL Source Control at the Columbus, GA SQL Server Users Group. Tweet This Post

July 30, 2010 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication, User Groups

Well, boo…. Back to the drawing wheel #sqlpass

Nose to the wagon board.  Grinding away at the dog-and-pony show.  Keeping a stiff upper lip.  Insert Other Platitudes… Apparantly, PASS started notifying potential speakers that their submissions for Summit 2010 were accepted today for ; unfortunately, I was not one of them (at least not yet).  2 of my 3 submissions were “Considered” before being [...]

July 8, 2010 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Conferences, PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

#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

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

SQLSaturday 41 Status Update

I know many people have been worried about me because of the recent personal issues that I’ve been dealing with, but things have finally started to stabilize.  I know I’ve promised that before, so no promises to return to blogging or getting more involved in the community, but I’m starting to climb out of the [...]

March 15, 2010 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

SQL Saturday 41 is official!

It’s live; we’re limited to 250 seats, so register now for a great day of training in Atlanta on April 24.  We’re also looking for speakers and sponsors, so please feel free to spread the word.  I’ll continue working on the stub in order to finish the site out, so check back often. This will [...]

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

Shhhh! SQLSaturday Atlanta 2010 request has been submitted.

We’re looking at April 24 at the Microsoft facility in Alpharetta, GA.  I just submitted the request on the website tonight, so it probably won’t be official for a few days, but I a) needed something to blog about tonight, and b) wanted to get the word out to start some buzz. Like last year, [...]

January 28, 2010 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

PASS Summit Day 2: the brief wrapup #sqlpass

I’m writing this post quickly, because I have a 6:30 SQLSaturday alumni meeting at a local donut stop.  Please don’t let the brevity of the post throw you off; lots of goals accomplished yesterday.  Unfortunately, going to sessions was not one of them I spent a lot of time networking, and discussing Agile techniques for [...]

November 5, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

PASS Summit Day 1.5

So this is the first official day of Summit, but since I got here in the middle of the day yesterday, I’m cramming a brief post in combining yesterday and today.  I could sum up the experience in one word: Awesome. I have met SO many people face to face that I normally follow on [...]

November 4, 2009 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web