I’m doing a few presentations in the next a few weeks.

February 16th, 2013: I’ll speak at IT Pro Camp in Sarasota, FL. I will present two sessions – “SQL Server – Practical Troubleshooting” and slightly refreshed version of “Between Ground and Clouds”.

February 28th, 2013: I’ll do online presentation for Moscow SQL Server User Group. I’ll talk about practical troubleshooting of SQL Server with wait statistics, DMV and Performance Counters.Will be presented in Russian – let me know if you want to attend.

March 1st, 2013: I’ll host SQL Saturday #192 one day pre-con – “SQL Server Internals from the Practical Angle”. I’m going to talk how SQL Server works under-the-hood in the way that helps you to apply the knowledge to day-to-day tasks.

March 2nd, 2013: I’ll present at SQL Saturday #192. Will have either one or two sessions about locking and blocking. We will use bag of candies as the replacement of Power Point

Finally, on March 21st, 2013 I’ll present at 24 Hours of PASS Russia. I’m going to talk about Data Partitioning. This is the different session that I did at TechEd, or, better say, a lot of content would be different – I’m not going to talk about scaling-out and Azure and focus on the regular installation of SQL Server. I’ll show a couple of deep-dive demos focusing on how to move data between different disk arrays keeping the system online. Even with the Standard edition of SQL Server.

Hope to see you there.

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I cannot believe that year past since I started the blog. It happened right before SQL Saturday #40 event in Miramar, FL. Well, in 2 weeks this wonderful place is going to host SQL Saturday #79 event and I’m going to present 2 sessions there:

1. Data Sharding in OLTP systems. I’m going to talk about various approaches that can help when you need to reduce SQL server load.  Even if this session announced in BI track, it does not have anything to do with BI – it would be “system architecture” type talk focusing on the sharding and vertical partitioning.
2. Anti-patterns in Database Design and T-SQL code. Self-explanatory. This one should be fun – no Power Point slides -Management Studio and SQL Code only.

Stop by and say “Hello!” if you’re planning to attend!

Tomorrow, February 24th, 2011, I’m doing the presentation “Database design for non-database architects” for Tampa IASA chapter. I’m planning to give the high level overview of SQL Server table and index internals, talk about locking and concurrency and focus on anti-patterns and ORM framework analysis.

I’m going to speak on Sql Saturday #62 this Saturday – January 15th in Tampa. I will talk about a few specific code patterns that can help with refactoring and code optimization. No Power Point slides. Please stop by and say “hello” if you’re attending!

I’m going to speak on SQL Saturday #49 this Saturday (10/16/2010) in Orlando. 1 session this time – “Locking and Blocking for Developers”. This is revised version of the presentation I did in Miami – I will put more details to resource waits and bottleneck troubleshooting.

Please stop by if you’re planning to attend.

See you there!

Dmitri