Tag Archive: Announcements

Sarasota IT Pro Camp

Join system administrators IT professionals and database professionals in addition to managers at all levels who work with Microsoft technologies for the Sarasota IT Pro Camp on Saturday, February 18th, 2012. IT Pro Camps are focused on serving the needs of  IT Pro’s (Windows system administrators). IT Pro’s haven’t had many events like our developer counterpart’s…

SQL Saturday #21 and Tampa Code Camp 2009

A couple upcoming events I’ll be presenting at… SQL Saturday #21 on October 17th in Orlando I’m amazed at how SQL Saturday has grown since the first one just a couple of years ago. Nearly 300 attendees have registered and there’s still time to sign up for this free event. There will be over 50 sessions…

SQLPSX Developer Blog

Powershell enthusiast, DBA and new SQL Server PowerShell Extensions developer Mike Shepard started a blog. Mike addresses a common question I’ve seem in the SQL Server forums on PowerShellCommunity.org of handling parameters in queries in his post, Executing SQL the Right Way in PowerShell,. A future release of SQL Server PowerShell Extensions will incorporate a series ADO.NET functions into…

SQLSaturday #16 South Florida

I’m giving a presentation at SQLSaturday in South Florida on August 8th 2009. If you haven’t been to a SQLSaturday, they’re free one-day events put on by local SQLPASS chapters. As an added bonus there will be two PowerShell sessions: PowerShell MVP and prolific presentor, Max Trindad will be presenting “PowerShell and SQL Server: Learn…

TechEd 2009 SQL + Powershell Sessions

Bill Ramos, Principal Program Manager on the SQL Server Management Studio team, will be delivering several sessions on two of my favorite topics, SQL Server and Powershell. Specifically Bill will be discussing Policy Based Management (PBM) and an interesting CodePlex project called Enterprise Policy Management Framework. The project has the stated goal of extending Policy-Based Management…

PASS Summit 2008

I attended the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Summit 2008 in Seattle, WA from November 17th through November 21st. Powershell made a showing with three Powershell focused presentations. There were two sessions by Allen White and one by Buck Woody. I was able to attend one session from each speaker. All presentations filled the available seats along with a row…