[Presenting] 9 days until WMI at #SQLSatKC !

Reminder: I will be presenting on SQL Saturday Kansas City on October 3rd, at Rockhurst University. 

I'm doing a new presentation!  (Which means my coworkers get to sleep through me doing a Lunch & Learn).  Eventlogs, WMI, WQL, and why you as a SQL Server DBA should care.  We'll start with Event Logs and go down the rabbit hole of WMI.  We'll cover Eventing, WQL alerts inside SQL Server, and more.  You'll find new abilities inside Windows & SQL Server you didn't know existed.


It looks like it ought to be another stellar event - the reason I'm driving the 12 hours is because of how well last year's went (plus, hey, BBQ crawl). 

And there's a ton of other awesome speakers, even if you don't see mine.  Kathi Kellenberger talking about window function performance, Bill Graziano talking about modern high-speed OLTP, Jason Horner on Dimensional Design, Bill Fellows on BIML, Wendy Pastrick on indexes... and another 29 sessions!

[Presenting] 24 Hours of PASS 2015 - how I did

Had to share.  From my presentation, here were the results of the survey (if you stuck around until the very end).  It included the comments as well, which were quite complimentary.  I smirked/winced at the comment about chatting me up at PASS, since my presentation wasn't selected and so the odds of me going are pretty damn slim.

But, like I said, I'm very pleased with this.  I know I had 237 people at one point, so it probably peaked at 250-275.  126 responses is better than I'd hoped for.  And Obviously I need to work on my presentation skills some more!  : )

[Presenting] Overlord, my 24 Hours of PASS presentation on Event Notifications

Welcome, all!

I hate being "that guy", the one with the awesome presentation who swears he'll have it up "today or tomorrow".  So, here's my presentation for 24 Hours of PASS.  Still stunned that I was chosen, thrilled to present it, and hopeful that you'll fall in love with it like I did.  Thanks for visiting!




And everything (slides, code, my in-production repository) can be found at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3a287PS_UJITXNON2h1STlmZFE/view?usp=sharing