{"id":82128,"date":"2012-08-14T00:38:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstaging.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=73429"},"modified":"2018-12-12T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:17:42","slug":"and-interview-an-online-session-a-long-drive-and-a-sql-saturday-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/and-interview-an-online-session-a-long-drive-and-a-sql-saturday-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"And interview, an online session, a long drive and a SQL Saturday\u2026 This week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later this week I will be doing an episode of the Greg Low\u2019s excellent SQL Down Under podcast (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.sqldownunder.com\/Resources\/Podcast.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sqldownunder.com\/Resources\/Podcast.aspx\">http:\/\/www.sqldownunder.com\/Resources\/Podcast.aspx<\/a>), something I did once before back in 2006.&#160; If you haven\u2019t listened to any of the previous editions, there are some amazing people who have been on his podcast. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday at 12:00 Central Time, I will be doing a presentation entitled Designing for Common Problems in SQL Server for the <a href=\"http:\/\/dataarch.sqlpass.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Friday I will be driving up to Cleveland, OH for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/164\/eventhome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Saturday 164<\/a>. I will be doing the Designing for Common Problems in SQL Server session, along with the Sequences session that I have done at several SQL Saturdays so far.&#160; Saturday I will give away two copies of my brand new book, one in each session, so if you want to be the first person I give one to, be there!<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the biggest issue is that the Designing for Common Problems session is WAY too long. In my prep so far, I have gotten halfway through with the patterns and code in one and a half hours. So who knows what I will do to cut down the time, either limit the patterns, or perhaps split the session? I will figure something out\u2026 at least on Saturday when I have real people I can poll the audience to see what they want to see in detail. Online pretty much all you see are people\u2019s names and the clock ticking away.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few other things coming up, including picking speakers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/145\/eventhome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville\u2019s SQL Saturday<\/a>, shipping out books to my SQL Rally attendees, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devlink.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Devlink<\/a> at the end of the month (when I will have a bit longer to the Common Problems session, thankfully), but more on that after this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this week I will be doing an episode of the Greg Low\u2019s excellent SQL Down Under podcast (http:\/\/www.sqldownunder.com\/Resources\/Podcast.aspx), something I did once before back in 2006.&#160; If you haven\u2019t listened to any of the previous editions, there are some amazing people who have been on his podcast. On Thursday at 12:00 Central Time, I&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[19684],"class_list":["post-82128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82311,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128\/revisions\/82311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82128"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=82128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}