SQL Server Storage Engine : Conferences 2007

TechEd session video available...

Paul Randal - MSFT — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:16:00 GMT

The session I gave at TechEd this year on 'Secrets of Fast Detection and Recovery from Database Corruptions' was videotaped as part of the Its Showtime! TechEd program. The video is now available to watch at http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=549. This is the same session I've been delivering to user groups around the world for the past few months but this time Kimberly joined me and played demo-monkey :-)

Enjoy!

First TechEd of the year coming up!

Paul Randal - MSFT — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:17:00 GMT

TechEd US is in Orlando this year - see here for details and here to register.

We're doing a bunch of HA and maintenance related sessions - here's the list:

Sunday 3rd June: Full day pre-conference on Leveraging SQL Server Always-On Technologies to Achieve High Availability and Scalability with Kimberly and Bob Beauchemin. I'll also be there all day. See Kimberly's TechEd blog post here for more details. This one's filling up fast so make sure you don't miss out.
Monday 4th June: Chalk-talk: SQL 2005 VLDB Maintenance Best Practices Q&A (me and Kimberly)
Tuesday 5th June: Session: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Always-On Demo Fest (Kimberly)
Tuesday 5th June: Chalk-talk: DBCC Internals (me)
Wednesday 6th June: Session: Microsoft SQL Server Always-On Technologies: Disaster Recovery Strategies for Isolated Damage and Human Error (Kimberly)
Thursday 7th June: Session: Microsoft SQL Server Always-On Technologies: Advanced Indexing Strategies (Kimberly)
Thursday 7th June: Session: Secrets to Fast Detection and Recovery From Database Corruptions (me)
Friday 8th June: Session: Managing Tempdb in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Sunil Agarwal)

We'll all be spending time at the SQL Server booth too answering questions and meeting many of you.

Hope to see a bunch of you there!

Naked Tour of Australia

Paul Randal - MSFT — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:42:00 GMT

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!

SSWUGtv interview with Paul and Kimberly

Paul Randal - MSFT — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:04:00 GMT

While we were at the SQL Server Connections conference in Orlando last week, Kimberly Tripp and I did a half-hour interview for SSWUGtv with Stephen Wynkoop. We cover a bunch of stuff around HA, database maintenance and board games.

The addictive game we discuss that we took with us is called Blokus - well worth trying out, but be warned... Kimberly did get her revenge that evening when she trounced me over a series of games. Now dominoes is a different story entirely... :-)

The interview is live on their site here. Enjoy!

Three upcoming events in March to learn about HA/DR and DB Maintenance

Paul Randal - MSFT — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:58:00 GMT

Things start early this year! I'm doing three events in March where I'll be speaking on HA/DR, internals and database maintenance, mostly partnering with Kimberly Tripp. Hope to see you at one of these!

Tuesday March 6th

One-day class in Reading, UK organized by Tony Rogerson (MVP) who runs the sqlserverfaq.com site. Kimberly and I will present a full day on Crucial Database Maintenance Techniques for Databases of All Sizes. The agenda is:

Part 1: Database Creation / Space Management Best Practices

Part 2: Table Structures, Fragmentation and Statistics

Part 3: Designing a Backup Strategy for Effective Disaster Recovery

Part 4: Secrets of Fast Detection and Recovery from Database Corruptions

See here for more details.

Friday 9th March

SQL Server Open World 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. I'm presenting the following sessions:

Database Corruption: Reducing Downtime and Dataloss with SQL Server 2005

Performance Insights: Interactive Session on the SE and RE (joint session with Kimberly)

See here for details.

Monday 26th - Thursday 29th March

SQL Server Magazine Connections, Orlando, FL. Kimberly and I will be jointly presenting these sessions:

Follow the Rabbit: Interactive Q&A on the SE and RE

Follow the Rabbit: Interactive Q&A on Availability

We're also doing our full-day post-conference workshop on Crucial Database Maintenance Techniques for Databases of All Sizes - same agenda as for the 3/6/07 class. I'll be around all week to answer questions as well. See here for all the details.