Category Archives: Presenting

Statistics at SQLSaturday #85

This week I’m on vacation with my family in sunny Orlando.  As luck would have it, the SQLSaturday powers-that-be scheduled SQLSaturday #85 here in Orlando this weekend.  I submitted a few sessions and had one selected!  If you want to learn about statistics, I would love to see you at my session, “You’re My Density:…

PowerPoint Notes: Not Always Good to Share

I don’t know about you, but when I am creating a presentation in PowerPoint, I use the notes section.  Sometimes I write full sentences about what I want to say, sometimes I just include a link to a whitepaper or blog post.  If I’m rehearsing I might put a To Do item for the slide…

Presenting with Demos aka Running with Scissors

Last night at our SQL Server user group meeting the presenter ran into issues with his first demo.  The topic was Change Data Capture, and the first step was enabling CDC on a newly created database; the stored procedure sp_cdc_enable_db threw an error on execution.  This demo was critical because all the other demos in…

Session News

It’s after 11 PM, I’m sitting in my hotel room, and this is pretty much the expression I’ve had all afternoon: See, emails about PASS Summit sessions went out this afternoon and I was thrilled to learn that two sessions I submitted have been accepted. Woohoo!! I am very honored and want to thank the…