GroupBy Conference is Now Accepting Session Submissions
Last month I announced my next crazy idea, a free online conference, and then I asked for your help picking the logo. Now it’s time to take the wrapping off.…
Survey Says: My #SQLsummit 2016 Session Ratings & Comments
After conference attendee feedback comes in, I like to blog about it to talk about what worked and what didn’t. This year, I think things worked fantastically overall. Intro to…
Thoughts on Giving Away How to Think Like the Engine
This year at the PASS Summit, I submitted one of my favorite abstracts, How to Think Like the Engine. It’s an introduction to SQL Server internals. I was really excited when…
The Three Parts of Every Presentation (#tsqltuesday #sqlnewspeakers)
T-SQL Tuesday: Growing New Speakers Every presentation has three parts: The topic you want to cover The material you write to cover the topic The way you deliver the material…
Pick the Logo for GroupBy, the Free Online Conference
The free online database conference I wrote about two weeks ago now has a name: Group By. Now, we need a logo. I ran a 99designs contest, and I’ve narrowed…
Questions & Answers From My #SQLSummit 500-Level Guide to Career Internals
Last week at the PASS Summit, I presented a half-day session: The 500-Level Guide to Career Internals. I used a cool new trick to accept private/silent questions live via the web,…
My Next Crazy Idea: A Free Online Conference
I wanna build something awesome where: Speakers submit session abstracts publicly online Vendors can be speakers, too (anybody can submit a talk on anything – your own open source project, paid project, Microsoft…
One Bold Change to Help SQLSaturday Scale
Alex Yates wrote a very interesting post called 5 bold changes to support the scale problem of SQL Saturdays (and other data platform conferences.) The short story: Cut costs (and no…
Book Reviews: Gear List of the Golden Moon, and The Book of Leadership
Have you ever thought about rowing up the coast in an open boat for, I dunno, a month? Yeah, me neither. But on vacation, I saw this book, and I…
PasteThePlan.com’s September Hosting Costs: $3.43
We launched PasteThePlan.com on September 11th, and it got just shy of 5K pageviews in 3 weeks: PasteThePlan pageviews After launch, it stabilized at around 125 pageviews per weekday. (That’ll bump up…
Hi, I’m Brent Ozar. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m on an epic life quest to have fun and make a difference.
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