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Free Training in October at the Quest Connect vConference

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Quest Connect is back… and bigger than ever!  Quest Connect 2009 will take place October 21 – 22, beginning at 9 a.m. British Summer Time/4 a.m. Eastern/1 a.m. Pacific and will accommodate all time zones. This is a 24-hour virtual event covering topics across Quest Software’s entire business.  The event is free and you won’t even need to leave their offices to access educational and product content.  Sign up for it at http://www.quest.com/ConnectKevinKlineBlog.

Visit our booth during Quest Connect and our industry experts, like me and Brent Ozar, will field your toughest questions.  Better yet, attend one of our informative webcasts to help you better manage your SQL Server environment:

  • Top 10 SQL Server Administration Mistakes—How to Avoid Problems That Sap Speed from Your Databases (This is my round table session with Jason Strate, Colin Stasiuk, and Mike Walsh.)
  • The Top 5 Things You Can Do with Litespeed for SQL Server to be a Backup and Recovery Hero
  • Understanding Execution Plans
  • A Sysadmin’s Guide to SQL Server–How Windows Administrators Can Manage SQL Server with Confidence

Attend a webcast and be entered into a drawing for a Netbook or Bose® SoundDock® Portable Digital Music System!  Other event sessions and information booths cover these topics:

* Active Directory
* Oracle
* Identity and Access Management
* Monitoring
* SharePoint
* Virtualization
* SQL Server
* Public Sector
* Unified Communications
* The Experts Conference (TEC) 2010
* Compliance
* Professional services and support
* Migration (AD, Exchange, SharePoint)
* Vizioncore
* Notes Migration
* ScriptLogic

Sponsors include many of our key partners:  Microsoft, Dell, NetApp, and ePlus.

The day will be filled with 17 live webcasts with Q&A as well as 50 on-demand webcasts that attendees can view at yourleisure.

Registration is live and we currently have over 1560 registrations so far! I hope to see you there.

-Kevin

Twitter at kekline

See my content at http://KevinEKline.com/

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New Slide Deck Section Added

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I’ve just added a new section to my website where you can find all of my slide decks, http://KevinEKline.com/Slides/.  Where available, I’ll also post links to recordings of the sessions and accompanying white papers.

I currently have four slide decks up from sessions I presented at various events in August 2009:

Disk IO Tuning for Microsoft SQL Server

End-to-End Troubleshooting for Microsoft SQL Server

Should I Virtualize SQL Server?

SQL Server 2008 Worth the Wait

I’m in the process right now up uploading a couple more slide decks from the Best Practices Conference 2009 and from the 24 Hours of PASS events:

Team Management Fundamentals

Feel free to check them out and, if you like, download them.

Cheers,

-Kev

Twitter at KEKline


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The SQLSaturday Advisory Council

Monday, August 17th, 2009

It’s my pleasure to report that Andy Warren has asked me to participate in the SQL Saturday Advisory Council.  I’m really excited by the fantastic learning opportunities presented by the SQL Saturday system of events that Andy and company have established.  They’ve taken great pains to set up a system of high-quality events that are free or very low cost to attendees.  In addition, they’re leading SQL Saturday altruistically and transparently, as indicated by their blog.  I’ve spoken at the Atlanta SQL Saturday and hope to speak at more in the future.  In fact, the leadership of my local SQL Server user group where I’m active are trying to get one started ourselves.  If you haven’t already taken a look at SQL Saturdays, you really should take a look, as either an attendee or as a speaker.  I’m honored to be invited to participate with this team of servant-leaders and hope to actively contribute to the growth of the SQL Server community at a grassroots level.

Cheers!

-Kevin

Twitter @kekline

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24 Hours of PASS

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Join me and many other great SQL Server gurus on September 1st for a 24-hour virtual event, 24 Hours of PASS.  I’ll be there along with many of the great SQL community speakers (and personal friends) such as Louis Davidson, Kalen Delaney, Steve Jones, Andy Kelly, Brian Knight, Brad McGahee and many more.  Each session is one hour in length with a 45 minute presentation and 15 minutes of live Q&A.  Local PASS Chapters from around the world will be hosting each hourly segment.

If you live in middle Tennessee, northern Alabama, or southern central Kentucky, be sure to check out our great Nashville PASS chapter.  The Nashville SQL Server Users Group meets on the last Friday of every month.  Hope to see you there soon!

Cheers,

-Kevin

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Come to the Best Practices Conference!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

I hope, by now, you’ve seen and heard about the upcoming Best Practices Conference in Washington, DC from August 24-26. I’m presenting a couple sessions there as are many of my favorite speakers in the SQL Server and Sharepoint world.

That is why I wanted to let you know about the Free Seat Giveaway that the Best Practices Conference is doing.  All you have to do it get a bunch of friends to sign up for the conference eNewsletter and put your name down as the referral source.  The top ten referrals will receive a free conference pass for the conference as a thank you.

Here is what the conference has promised: “This is not a spam list. Your name and your friend’s name will not be sold, it will not be given to third party vendors, we won’t bombard you with unnecessary email. This is our way to stay in touch with people interested in our conference, period”.

For more details, and to register for this promotion: http://bpc-passgiveaway.eventbrite.com/

The promotion ends at 11:55pm EST, Friday, July 24th, so hop on it!

And as always, let me know what you think.

Cheers,

-Kevin

Twitter @ kekline

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