Category Archives: Training

SQL Saturday NYC 2025 Conference, a Success!

Once again, the organizers and volunteers of SQL Saturday NYC created a wonderful experience at the Microsoft Times Square office! Continue reading

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SQL Saturdays, and Future Data Driven Summit: Networking and Learning for Data Professionals

For over ten years, the author has participated in SQL Saturdays, free one-day training events for Microsoft data platform users, featuring technical sessions on SQL topics and networking opportunities. Recently, they presented at events in Albany, Syracuse, and Boston, also attending a virtual summit, promoting local tech event involvement. Continue reading

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SQL Saturday NYC 2023! A Success!

SQL Saturdays are an amazing, volunteer-led, conference held in various cities. The NYC 2023 SQL Saturday was great! Continue reading

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Presenting to others – Yes, you can.

Now that Covid has receded from the forefront, in-person events are getting back into the swing. October 2022! I had the great pleasure of presenting to both SQL Saturday Boston, as well as the Capital Area SQL Server user group … Continue reading

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Linkedin learning and Teams: Working remotely

I wanted to share some resources to help businesses out in this day and age. These links are both about managing and working remotely, as well as using Teams to facilitate videoconferencing. I have a previous post as well for … Continue reading

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How to have remote meetings in today’s world

Having effective remote meetings is a challenge. This guide may help you succeed in terms of procedures and tooling. Continue reading

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10 years of people and technology: What did I learn?

How a technical support professional evolved into a speaker, mentor, and key hiring decision maker. Continue reading

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Modern Migration Tour: SQL 2019 upgrade event in Burlington MA

Want to learn how to upgrade from SQL 2008/R2 to a more modern version? This roadshow will help you learn the tools necessary to do so! Continue reading

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SQL Saturday Boston BI: Migrate to Azure

I will be talking at SQL Saturday Boston BI 2019 about migrating a SaaS application to the cloud, and the business and technical challenges. Continue reading

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Inspire 2019 is coming! Sign up!

Attention all Microsoft partners! Inspire, our partner conference, will be held in Las Vegas again July 14-18th, 2019. Why should you consider attending or sponsoring this event? We recognize there are end-customer solutions that you are expert at, and we … Continue reading

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