Adam Machanic : demos

SQL Saturday #220 (Atlanta): Demos

Adam Machanic — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:33:00 GMT

Today at SQL Saturday #220 in Atlanta I presented a new brand new session , "SQL Server Query Plan Analysis: The 5 Culprits That Cause 95% of Your Performance Headaches." This session is designed to help people quickly analyze query plans and find likely...(read more)

SQLbits London 2012 - Demos

Adam Machanic — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:50:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions last Friday and Saturday at SQLbits! It was great to meet many new people, not to mention spending some time exploring one of my favorite cities, London. Attached are the demos for each of the two talks I delivered:...(read more)

SQL Server Connections Fall 2011 - Demos

Adam Machanic — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:12:00 GMT

Today is the last day of the annual SQL Server Connections show in Vegas, and I've just completed my third and final talk. (Now off to find a frosty beverage or two.) This year I did three sessions: SQL302: Parallelism and Performance: Are You Getting...(read more)

Thinking Big (Adventure)

Adam Machanic — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:56:00 GMT

If the title of this post doesn't have you scratching your head, you may have been paying very rapt attention last time you saw me speak. I love the portability of AdventureWorks and the fact that anyone can download it. Since it was released I've used...(read more)

TechEd 2010 Thanks and Demos

Adam Machanic — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Thank you to everyone who attended my three sessions at this year's TechEd show in New Orleans. I had a great time presenting and answering the really great questions posed by attendees. My sessions were: DAT317 T-SQL Power! The OVER Clause: Your Key...(read more)

Demos: Connections, Fall 2009, Las Vegas

Adam Machanic — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:15:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions this week at SQL Server Magazine Connections in Las Vegas. Attached to this post you will find the demos for the following sessions: SDV301: Best Practices for Exception Handling and Defensive Programming in...(read more)

Demos From Cape Cod .NET: T-SQL Power! Presentation

Adam Machanic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:05:00 GMT

On Tuesday night I was honored to present a new talk to the Cape Cod .NET Users Group that meets in Plymouth, MA. The talk is called "T-SQL Power! Learning to Harness the Under-Used OVER Clause". Following is the abstract for the talk: First introduced...(read more)

Demos from my TechEd session (DAT302: Best Practices for Exception Handling and Defensive Programming in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008)

Adam Machanic — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:48:00 GMT

If you attended my session this morning, thank you! It's always flattering when people are willing to wake up before 8:00 a.m. just so that they can hear a talk about SQL Server. I had a great time doing the talk, and I think it went well. My sincerest apologies to the person I accidentally hit in the head with the t-shirt; I will work on my throwing arm and hopefully do a better job with the swag tossing next time!

I had a few requests for the demo scripts, and they are attached to this post. Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with them. And thanks again for attending.

For those who were not there, the presentation was recorded, and I believe it will be posted online at some point, so keep your eyes open for that.