{"id":876,"date":"2011-01-28T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/?p=876"},"modified":"2011-01-28T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:49:40","slug":"upcoming-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/upcoming-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking like it&#8217;s going to be a busy year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only January and I already have three presentations lined up for the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the 10<sup>th<\/sup> February I&#8217;m presenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quest.com\/events\/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=13318\">database corruption<\/a> for Quest&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quest.com\/backstage\/pow.aspx\">Pain of the Week<\/a> webcast. I&#8217;m not <a href=\"http:\/\/sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/\">Paul Randal<\/a>, but I think I might be able to muddle through the topic without making too much of a fool of myself.<\/li>\n<li>27<sup>th<\/sup> February I&#8217;m speaking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/65\/eventhome.aspx\">SQLSaturday 65<\/a> in Vancouver! First trip to Canada, first SQLSaturday attendance. I&#8217;m doing a presentation that&#8217;s an old favourite of mine \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/viewsession.aspx?sat=65&amp;sessionid=2962\">Introduction to Indexes<\/a>. It&#8217;s very much aimed at beginners, so don&#8217;t expect any dark magic or mystical secrets<\/li>\n<li>15th March I&#8217;m taking part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlpass.org\/24hours\/spring2011\/default.aspx\">24 Hours of PASS<\/a>. The session is titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlpass.org\/24hours\/spring2011\/Home\/BadPlanSit.aspx\">Bad plan! Sit<\/a>&#8221; Thanks to Steve Jones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlservercentral.com\/blogs\/steve_jones\/\">blog<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/way0utwest\">twitter<\/a>) for the initial idea.It&#8217;s going to have something to do with bad execution plans. I haven&#8217;t decided exactly what yet. I guess that means it will be a surprise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to these, I&#8217;m also presenting at both the February and March meetings of the South African SQL Server usergroup.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s definitely enough work for the next two months\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking like it&#8217;s going to be a busy year. It&#8217;s only January and I already have three presentations lined up for the first quarter of the year. On the 10th February I&#8217;m presenting on database corruption for Quest&#8217;s Pain&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/upcoming-presentations\/\">(Read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-syndication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-e8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}