SQL Teach - Jean Rene's conference that rotates around Canada, is quickly becoming my favorite event of the year, eh? The last one was in Toronto a couple weeks ago. The next one is in Montreal. Then next spring he'll be in Vancouver again. SQLTeach is 2 tracks of DevTeach which also has tracks for .Net, ASP, architecture, Agile, SharePoint, and ...

I'm writing this at 39K feet on a United 757 flying home to Denver. This week was SQLTeach in Vancouver followed by the PASS Board meeting in Redmond. SQLTeach is a smaller (400-500 attendees fits in a hotel) developer/SQL conference organized by Jean-Rene that rotates across Canada (Montreal - Vancouver - Toronto). This is my third SQL Teach and ...

I’m in Nashville for the second DevLink conference with about 400 others. This multi-technology conference has a fun code-camp feel, with the fixings of the full conference and a few special touches that set it apart from the big conferences – things like hand-written thank you notes for the speakers, and Rik Roberts - an hilarious comedian ...

Montreal is one of my favorite places, and May 14-17 is the SQL teach Conference in Montreal. I'd like to invite you to my pre-con, Design and Optimization Best-Practices with SQL Server 2005. If you've always believed that the design of the database determines it's success, but couldn't quite put your finger on exactly how to design a ...