19Oct 2010 by Grant Fritchey 1 Comment

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

PASS
I've got a couple of more sessions before the big two at the PASS Summit. Tomorrow night, October 20th, I'll be speaking at the Southern New England Network Users Group on SQL Server Best Practices. It's the first time I've talked on this topic, so it might be fun to watch. After that I'm previewing one of my two Summit presentations for Brian Knight (blog|twitter) and Pragmatic Works in a webinar on Identifying and Fixing Performance Problems Using Execution Plans. Go here to register. After that, it's off the PASS Summit.
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11Aug 2010 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

Viva Las Vegas!

SQL Server, T-SQL
I won't be going to Las Vegas, but I will be presenting to the Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group, S3OLV. The sesssion will be "Introduction to Execution Plans." Please swing by if you're in the area. I'm not sure if they'll make the LiveMeeting available to the public or if they'll record the session. But if they do, please attend that way too.
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15Jun 2010 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

Sarasota SQL Server Users Group

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Tonight I'm presenting for the Sarasota SQL Server Users Group. If you're interested in attending, you can join in using this link. The topic will be "Query Performance Tuning 101." And in case you can't make that, Thursday, June 17th, I'll be on Quest's Pain of the Week. It should be fun too.
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22Apr 2010 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

PASS Summit Content Survey Results

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The results of a survey conducted by the PASS organization have been posted (thanks to the Board for all their work, again). Since getting to speak at PASS is a competition, I really shouldn't be pointing this out, because I'd like to speak again. However, if you're trying to decide whether or not a detailed discussion of Windows Server 2008 Collation would be more interesting to the attendees than a session on Filtered Indexes (it wouldn't) you can go check it out on the survey. It should help you make better choices for what the attendees want to see. Of course, if everyone runs off and submits sessions on the same four or five topics, that's going to open up others. Regardless, this is a service to the attendees because…
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13Jan 2010 by Grant Fritchey 6 Comments

Connections Sessions Evals

SQL Server, T-SQL
I've kind of been embarassed to post these despite the fact that I received them a couple of weeks ago. Overall, I'd say they're very good, and I'm quite proud of them, but one comment still has me upset. Anyway, here we go: DMV's For Performance Tuning (same session as PASS): 7 responses Q1. Speaker's knowledge of topic Your average score for this session: 4.0 Highest score (all SQL speakers for this question): 4.0 Mean average score (all SQL speakers for this question): 3.74 Lowest score (all SQL speakers for this question): 3.0 Q2. Speaker's presentation skills Your average score for this session: 3.86 Highest score (all SQL speakers for this question): 4.0 Mean average score (all SQL speakers for this question): 3.47 Lowest score (all SQL speakers for this…
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06Oct 2009 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

Hey, ho, where’d you go…

PASS
Ohio? I'm presenting on Thursday to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group, home of the newly minted MVP, Jeremiah Peschka (congrats again). It's to be a virtual presentation through live meeting. The topic is a Understanding Execution Plans. This time I hope that one of us remembers to hit the record button unlike last time when I did this presentation for the PASS AppDev Virtual Chapter. If you're in the area, come on down and meet me, virtually. Show runs from 6:30-8:30, although all that time is not my presentation, so I suspect Jeremiah has some more fun planned.
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