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• TechEd interview video

  Here 's a video of Adam Machanic interviewing me at TechEd in Boston last year - thanks to Chuck Boyce for filming and editing. (Hey - only 12 responses so far to the CHECKDB questions I asked in this post - I've got plenty of Hands-On labs DVDs left. Read More... Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 1:25 PM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 1 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006

• When can allocation order scans be used?

  I know this is jumping the gun a little as I haven't made it this far in my series on fragmentation , but this came up in a chalk-talk I did yesterday at TechEd Developers in Barcelona and is worth blogging about. You'd expect a select * from mytable Read More... Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:31 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 7 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006, Index Fragmentation Series, On-Disk Structures

• Final TechEds of the year coming up in November

  It's been a little hectic since I came back from the China/Hong Kong trip. I've been spending a lot of time getting decks ready for more TechEds and an internal training program. I've also been doing a course to get my PADI Open Water Diver certification Read More... Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:17 PM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006

• More TechEds coming up in September...

  It's been a few weeks since I last posted - I've been off on vacation around Banff, Canada plus preparing for the TechEds in China and Hong Kong. I'll be at the following TechEds in September: 9/14 - 9/16: Shanghai 9/18 - 9/19: Guangzhou 9/21 - 9/23: Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:14 PM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006

• The best part of TechEd was meeting people...

  TechEd's done and dusted for another year, and what a blast we had! It's incredible to think of the number of customers who stopped by the SQL Server DAT section of the Technical Learning Center to pepper us with questions, and even more so to think of Read More... Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:52 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006

• We're at TechEd - stop by and see us!

  Luckily the 8.40am Alaska Airlines direct flight from Seattle>Boston was on time as I'm guessing it was 85% Microsoft! TechEd got off to a great start yesterday with the keynotes - pretty amazing to be in a conference room with 10000 other people. Read More... Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 11:35 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006

• Are you coming to TechEd? We'd like to see you there!

  Just over half the Storage Engine PM team will be at TechEd June 11-17. Attending will be: Sunil Agarwal - Access Methods PM specializing in locking, concurrency, bulk load, snapshot isolation, performance troubleshooting Kevin Farlee - Transaction Services Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:28 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006