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T-SQL Tuesday #41 – A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Luke — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:46:01 +0000

This post might come a bit late but this is in response to Bob Pusateri‘s T-SQL Tuesday topic about presenting. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogging event, with a different community host each month.

So, how did I come to present and loving it?

“a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

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Presenting session: Anatomy of a Join at SQL Saturday #211 in Chicago

Luke — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:53:06 +0000

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be presenting for the second time at SQL Saturday in Chicago my Internals session “Anatomy of a Join” on Saturday April 13, 2013!

Location is: Devry Addison Campus 1221 N. Swift Rd, Addison, IL 60101

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about [...]

Things to do at PASS Summit 2012

Luke — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:55:16 +0000

Since there are over 5000 people that will be coming to Seattle this year for PASS Summit 2012 I was thinking to put together a list of things to do around the city.

Please feel free to add on to the list and I will try to update the content.

First of all if you [...]

My road to PASS Summit 2012

Luke — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:48:25 +0000

It’s been a while since I decided to give back to the SQL Server community and start speaking at community events. I started on a journey as a speaker that has been incredibly rewarding and even though most of the time I paid for it out of my own pocket, the knowledge and the friends [...]

A tale of two cities : Presenting Anatomy of a Join at SQL Saturday #160 and #149

Luke — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:53:02 +0000

Next 10 days will be pretty busy as I will be presenting my session “Anatomy of a Join” at SQL Saturday #160 in Kalamazoo, MI on Saturday September 22, 2012 and the following week at SQL Saturday #149 in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday September 29, 2012

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals [...]

Presenting session: Anatomy of a Join at SQL Saturday #161 in Iowa City

Luke — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:28:26 +0000

I will be presenting my session “Anatomy of a Join” at SQL Saturday #161 in Iowa City on Saturday August 11, 2012!

Location is: University Capitol Centre Room 2520,University of Iowa, 201 S Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52240

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL [...]

Speaking at SQL Saturday #126 in Indianapolis

Luke — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:09:12 +0000

I will be presenting my session on “Optimizing SQL Server I/O with Solid State Drives” at SQL Saturday #126 in Indianapolis on Saturday July 28, 2012!

There is also a pre-con available: Allen White will present a one day Pre-Con on Friday July 27th from 8am to 5pm

Location is: University of [...]

A SSD Technology a Day (8) – eMLC and MLC-HET

Luke — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:07:11 +0000

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series One SSD Technology a Day

In the 2nd post off this series we have explored the differences between SLC and MLC and saw that the main issue with MLC is endurance which in the past prevented their use for enterprise applications. Because of the increased capacity [...]

A SSD Technology a Day (7) – Intelligent Bad Block Management

Luke — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:30:26 +0000

This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series One SSD Technology a Day

In previous posts I talked about the wear and RAISE algorithms implemented by SSD controllers. One of the inevitable issues solid state memory is how to gracefully deal with bad blocks.

Bad blocks are flash memory blocks that contain one or [...]

A SSD Technology a Day (6) – CacheCade

Luke — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:29:58 +0000

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series One SSD Technology a Day

CacheCade is a technology developed by LSI for its MegaRAID Storage controllers. CacheCade software allows you to mix inexpensive SATA or even SAS hard disk drives with up to 512GB of solid state storage capacity distributed over a few SSD drives, [...]