ok - a little explanation is required.
At the last MVP Summit here in Redmond, I met up with a bunch of the Australian MVPs, most of whom run SQL Server User Groups. I came up with the idea of doing a series of remote user group presentations from Redmond. The trouble is that Australia's waaaay ahead of Redmond in terms of timezones, so most of the presentations will be at midnight or 1am for me. This means I'll be doing them from my office at home in the middle of the night, and I don't have a web-cam so.... clothing could be optional - hence the Naked Tour :-)
There are actually a few user group presentations planned over the next few months - here's the list (all dates are local to the user group) with links to the respective user group websites where I could find them. I'll be doing a presentation on Corruption Detection and Recovery (same one that's now on the TechEd US schedule).
- May 10th - Perth, Australia
- May 10th - Cleveland/Detroit, USA
- May 15th - Melbourne, Australia
- May 17th - Singapore
- May 21st - Washington DC, USA
- May 24th - Brisbane, Australia
- May 24th - Belgium
- June 13th - Sydney, Australia
- June 14th - Adelaide, Australia
- June 14th - PacWest, Bellevue, USA
- July 10th - Canberra, Australia
Hope to virtually see you at one of these!
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About Paul Randal - MSFT
Paul started in the industry in 1994 working for DEC on the VMS file system and check/repair tools.
In 1999 he moved to Microsoft to work on SQL Server, specifically on DBCC. For SQL Server 2000, he concentrated on index fragmentation (writing DBCC INDEXDEFRAG and DBCC SHOWCONTIG) plus various algorithms in DBCC CHECKDB. During SQL Server 2005 development Paul was the lead developer/manager of one the core dev teams in the Storage Engine, responsible for data access and storage (DBCC, allocation, indexes & heaps, pages/records, text/LOB storage, snapshot isolation, etc). He also spent several years rewriting DBCC CHECKDB and repair. For SQL Server 2008, Paul managed the Program Management team for the core Storage Engine to become more focused on customer/partner engagement and feature set definition.
In 2007, after 8.5 years on the SQL Server team, Paul left Microsoft to join his wife, Kimberly Tripp, running SQLskills.com and pursuing his passion for presenting and consulting.
Paul regularly presents at conferences and user groups around the world on high-availability, disaster recovery and Storage Engine internals. His popular blog is at http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/.
