It’s almost here! One more month to go until SQL Saturday #126 [http://www.sqlsaturday.com/126/eventhome.aspx] is finally here. On Jul 28th,2012 Indianapolis will be hosting  an all day event of approximately 250+ developers and database administrators at the University of Indianapolis. There are still

Another SQL Saturday weekend has come and gone. This time it was SQL Saturday #87 in Louisville, KY . The event appeared to be pretty well packed,  Malathi Mahadevan ( @sqlmal [http://twitter.com/#!/sqlmal] | Malathi’s Blog [http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/diligentdba/] )  and crew pulled off another awesome event! Hopefully most

Well, another SQL Saturday is in the books. This time I was speaking at our own SQL Saturday #82 in Indianapolis, IN. Being our first SQL Saturday event the pressure was on to produce a top-tier event for both speakers and attendees alike. Luckily, my parent company Perpetual Technologies, Inc

SQL Saturday #82 is having an all day pre-conference event at Perpetual Technologies, Inc headquarters building. This is a once in a lifetime opprotunity for you to get a full day of training given by one of the premier SQL Server experts in the field, Kevin Kline of Quest ( blog

Well, word came yesterday that I will be speaking at the PASS Summit 2011 [http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2011/] in Seattle this October! I am truly excited about the opportunity to speak at this event as this will be the my first large scale event in a few years.

I am sharing more of an unSQL related story here today because it has a LOT to do with what myself and a few others like Andy Warren ( blog [http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/andy_warren/default.aspx] | twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/sqlandy] ) like to espouse upon and that is

Let’s be totally honest….budgets are tight. My 401K is taking a hit from the stock market. Business are holding onto their capital like Linus and that darn blanket of his. So with all the new tech coming out from Microsoft how are you going to possibly keep up

** ONLY OPEN TILL MAY 20th, 2011 !!! This year PASS is asking for your input in helping them select the sessions that will be added to the roster this year. The program committee will use YOUR input to help them decide which sessions get in and which ones don’t. This

I remember when I got out of the academia scene(physics) and started working for the federal government. My position was one that required me to be an active member of the military so part of the gig was that you had 2 weeks worth of training that you had