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March 20, 2013  2:00 PM

Keeping Your Speaking Commitments



Posted by: Denny Cherry
Social Commentary, SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Server

Many event organizers are way too polite to publicly admit that this problem exists as badly as it does.  But a problem has been showing up way to much recently.  The problem which I speak of is session speakers not showing up for their sessions, and the even bigger problem of speakers not...

March 13, 2013  2:00 PM

Deleting LOB Data and Shrinking the Database



Posted by: Denny Cherry
Andre Kamman, Database, Database Administration, DBCC PAGE, Mladen Prajdić, Paul Randal, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 194, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, System Objects, Tables

While attending SQL Saturday 194 in Exeter over in England one of the attendees came to Mladen Prajdić, Andre Kamman and myself with an interesting problem.  She had a database table which was about 200 Gigs in size which she wanted to...


February 25, 2013  11:44 PM

SQL Saturday 177 Slide Deck



Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 177, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012

This last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at SQL Saturday 177 in Mountain View, CA.  One of the great things about this SQL Saturday is that in some ways it is an extension of the MVP Summit as for the second year in a row (that I know of) this SQL Saturday has been scheduled the weekend...


February 11, 2013  7:56 PM

SQL Saturday Albuquerque Slide Deck



Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 183, SQL Server

This last weekend was SQL Saturday Albuquerque (#183) and I had the privilege of speaking at their first SQL Saturday.  I had a great time at the event, and kudos to the event team for putting together a fantastic SQL Saturday. The session which I presented at SQL Saturday was titled "SQL...


January 14, 2013  10:19 PM

SQL Saturday #194 Exeter Pre-Con Signup Page is Live



Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 194, SQL Server

I'm pleased to tell you that the pre-con sign up page has gone live and is available for signups for the 5 great pre-con sessions which will be available that day.  You'll find the links below for each of the 5 pre-cons (including


December 6, 2012  12:42 PM

SQL Saturday 194 (#sqlsat194) Here I Come



Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data Encryption, Database security, Encryption, Security, SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 194, SQL Server

I'm so happy to be able to announce that I'll be giving a precon at SQL Saturday 194 over in England on Friday March 8th, 2013.  This precon will be will be on SQL Server...


September 17, 2012  2:00 PM

SQL Saturday 157 Slide Decks and Sample Code



Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 157, SQL Server

This last weekend we had our most recent SQL Saturday in San Diego, CA.  This was SQL Saturday 157 and it was a huge success.  Making this SQL Saturday even better than most was the fact that the SQL PASS Board of Directors had their quarterly meeting the days before so most of the board was able...


September 10, 2012  5:41 PM

SQL Saturday 147 Slide Decks



Posted by: Denny Cherry
PASS, SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 147, SQL Server

I had the pleasure of speaking at SQL Saturday 147 in Recife, Brazil about 2 weeks ago.  I just realized that I never got my slide decks for my sessions uploaded. I gave 3 sessions that weekend.


August 10, 2012  2:00 PM

Full Day Storage and Virtualization Class at SQL Saturday 145



Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 147, SQL Server

On October 12th 2012 I'll be presenting an all day session titled "Storage and Virtualization for the DBA" as a pre-con session for SQL Saturday 145 in Nashville, TN (links to all...


July 23, 2012  2:00 PM

SQL Saturday 147 Precon (#sqlsat147)



Posted by: Denny Cherry
AlwaysOn, Availability Groups, SQL PASS, SQL PASS 2012, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 147, SQL Server

If you are planning on attending SQL Saturday 147 down in Recife Brazil you would check out my pre-con session being held on August 24th.  In this session I'll be talking about all of the High Availability options which are available for SQL Server...