{"id":82124,"date":"2012-05-01T23:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstaging.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=73419"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T10:08:05","slug":"crazy-week-next-week-sqlrally-and-sql-saturday-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/crazy-week-next-week-sqlrally-and-sql-saturday-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Week Next Week\u2013SQLRally and SQL Saturday Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of my time lately has been spent getting ready for next week and I hope to see you there.\u00a0 First up SQL Rally.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, I will be doing a pre-con session on Database Design. I have already blogged about it here<\/a>, and I am definitely excited about it.\u00a0 There are still seats available, and I will be giving away a few goodies including my new design book<\/a> (though it won\u2019t yet be printed, I will get it to attendees), several of my, Tim Ford and Glenn Berry\u2019s DMV books<\/a> from RedGate, and who know what else I might have in my bag (Apress is sending me a lot of swag to give away during the conference too).<\/p>\n

Friday (last session of the conference), I will be presenting my new session entitled Sequences (What They Are and Are Not).\u00a0 This session is a great departure from my typical presentation.\u00a0 I typically do 95% slides, and sometimes 100% slides.\u00a0 In this presentation I currently have 17 slides, and that will only change to include a bit more\u00a0 contact information.\u00a0 I have a lot of code using sequences in multiple ways, including racing them against identities and different caching levels.<\/p>\n

After the rally ends, I will hop in my yellow Focus and make the following delightful journey:<\/p>\n

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Assuming traffic is kind to me and Bing\u2019s time estimates are reasonably correct, a bit over 9 hours of driving and a night in a Hampton Inn to be named later and I should arrive at Birmingham\u2019s SQL Saturday<\/a> event.<\/p>\n

Sounds insane right?\u00a0 Well, yeah, it kinda does.\u00a0 But I wanted to make their event again this year, and it was just a couple of hours out of my way back to Nashville. You may also think it sound like a bit of vanity, and it isn\u2019t really.\u00a0 Assuming traffic is favorable, my hope is that I can arrive for the 2:00 sessions by Chris Price on Data Quality (or Kevin Boles on Column Store Indexes), Sven Aelterman\u2019s session on File Tables as well before my 4:30 session on Sequences.\u00a0 Obviously if traffic is bad it might turn out that I only make my own session, but even then I plan to hang out for the after event so it won\u2019t be a total loss.<\/p>\n

In any case, hope to see you all in Dallas or Birmingham next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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