Want to get a sneak peek at the kinds of presentations we covered on the boat on SQLCruise 2010? Check out the first nine minutes of What I Wish I Would Have Known When I Started, brought to you by Quest Software: We’re getting ready to announce our 2011 schedule – stay tuned, or subscribe…
Want to get a sneak peek at the kinds of presentations we covered on the boat on SQLCruise 2010? Check out the first six minutes of Tuning T-SQL Step by Step, brought to you by SQL Sentry: We’re getting ready to announce our 2011 schedule – stay tuned, or subscribe to our updates via email.
I’m flying through the air as I type these words. I’m returning back to Chicago after a week of fun in South Florida, and it’ll be a while before I’m back down to Earth. I’ve got a million things going through my head, but not much time to get them all out before I fly…
Saturday we went to #SQLSaturday South Florida, and wow, what an event. A few hundred SQL Server professionals turned up to hear free training sessions. Afterwards, we went to On The Border for drinks & appetizers, then off to the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort for a pool party. It didn’t end up being much…
Wanna know where we are? Check out the Live Ships Map. You can zoom out to see where the Carnival Imagination is at any time. Thanks Shawn Melton (Blog – @MeltonDBA) for this tip! Before we leave and whenever we’re near land, you can also catch the chatter on Twitter – even without an account…
The sponsors for SQLCruise have really gone off the deep end. I can’t thank them enough for not just helping get more SQL Server people trained, but giving out tons of cool stuff, too. Each day is sponsored by a different vendor, and during their dinner or lunch, we’ll be giving away an official SQLCruise…
In preparation for SQLCruise 2010, I’ve put together a recommended reading list. Reading the blogs, articles, and scripts in this list will help you get the most out of your time on board. Gather Queries From Your Procedure Cache – this script from SQLServerPedia will fetch queries and their execution plans out of your SQL…
Carnival has dropped the prices for our cruise! Rooms are now going for just $369 per person. It doesn’t get much cheaper than this, folks. Now is the perfect time to book one of the four remaining spots on SQLCruise. You can take advantage of cheap airfare discounts because the cruise is still more than…
Tim Ford wrote about why we’re doing SQLCruise in his latest tip at MSSQLTips. Here’s a quote: Both Brent and I are believers that you learn just as much, if not more, from those who you spend time with during conferences as you do in the conferences themselves. We felt the camaraderie between attendees could…
That’s right – plural. Winners. As in more than one. SQL Sentry ran a contest to give away a cruise for two and training for one absolutely free. All you had to do was tell ‘em why you deserved to go on SQLCruise. The competition was fierce, including three video entries and a poem that…