October is going to be a very busy month for me! Three conferences and a pre-con are on the agenda. This weekend, on October 3, I’ll be in Kansas City for SQLSaturday #444. This will be my third trip to KC for their event, and it’s always a treat. I’ll be speaking at 9:00a about […]
Speaking at SQLSaturday Omaha
In just one week, I’ll be traveling west to Omaha to speak at SQLSaturday there. It’s been a while since I’ve been to one, so I’m really looking forward to it. On Friday, I’ll be presenting an all-day pre-conference session on SQL Server security. This will be an A-Z overview of the topic. We’ll start […]
Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been selected to present as part of the next 24 Hours of PASS! The theme this time is “Growing Our Communities” – only those who have never been accepted to speak at PASS Summit were eligible to submit abstracts. From the submitted abstracts, twenty-four were selected to present a […]
Monitoring Your Backups [T-SQL Tuesday #66]
Cathrine Wilhelmsen (b|t) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and the topic she chose is monitoring. All of us, whether a DBA or a developer, internal resource or consultant, monitor something on a daily basis. The hardest part for me was deciding what to write about. In the end, I decided to write about monitoring […]
SQL Server 2016 announced… and it’s gonna rock
In what spare time I’ve had this week, I’ve been watching the news coming out of Microsoft Ignite (formerly Tech Ed). SQL Server 2016 was announced during Monday’s keynote. And it sounds like it will be awesome. Just a few of the highlights I’m interested in so far: Always Encrypted SQL Server has had encryption capabilities […]