Conferences in the second half of 2015: From Asia to America to Europe

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I’m sitting in the plane from San Francisco, where the Oracle Java One conference is taking place this week, to Seattle, where I will be participating in the PASS Summit and seeing and hearing the latest on SQL Server 2016. Prior to this peak of conferences which I will be attending for the 7th consecutive […]
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My conference sessions in 2015: from Extended Events over In-Memory to Security

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Finally I get to write about my conference-talks in 2015. The year started really great with the German SQL Server Konferenz in Darmstadt with 2 sessions on In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014 – one of them being even a full-day PreCon, which I co-presented with Niko Neugebauer, who was talking about Clustered ColumnStore Indexes.
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SQL Server in Microsoft Azure: How to gain performance by flexibility and save costs at the same time

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This is the first time that I am tackling Microsoft Azure in an article. (Microsoft.com: What is Microsoft Azure?) A plethora of services is provided by Microsoft Azure by now, of which the hosting of virtual machines running on an SQL Server service is one. This is what we call IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
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Upcoming conferences end of 2014: Microsoft Technical Server Summit, MVP Summit, PASS Summit, Microsoft Technical Summit

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The end of year is approaching fast. For the next three months, several conferences are scheduled. After the introduction of SQL Server 2014 at the BASTA in September in Mainz/Germany, I am continuing in October with a presentation on New Storage-Types in SQL Server 2014 at the Microsoft Technical Server Summit Düsseldorf/Germany:
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Upcoming Conferences: SQLSaturdays in Denmark and Portugal.

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In March and April, 2 European SQLSaturdays take place, which have the potential for a real insiders’ tip: On March 29th in Copenhagen, Danmark and April 12th in Lisbon, Portugal. Since I already participated as a speaker in Copenhagen last year, I can avouch from “insider information” for the excellent organization and speaker choice.
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Where are the scripts to the session „SQL Attacked/Hacking SQL Server“ ? ;-)

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Subsequent to the lectures from my “Hacking SQL Server” series “Security Session „SQL Attack..ed“ – Attack scenarios on SQL Server (“Hacking SQL Server”)” which I have already given at the SQLSaturdays Rheinland, Istanbul, at the SQLRAlly Amsterdam and at many regional groups of PASS Germany, more often than not the question arises whether I make […]
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Security-Session: “SQL Server under Attack” this November @ SQL Rally Amsterdam

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Alright, this is going to be the by far most active year in terms of speaking at international conferences: After 6 conferences last year, including SQL Rally Nordic, which I really liked a lot, I had to decide between SQL Rally Nordic again or SQL Rally Amsterdam or even both.
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PreCon Performance Analysis & Tuning Techniques at SQLSaturday in Istanbul

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What a year: after as many as 3 SQLSaturdays (Denmark, Netherlands, Germany) behind me, I will now also speak at SQSaturday #258 in Istanbul, Turkey. And after my first PreCon this year at the SQLSaturday in Germany, which I was co-presenting together with Mladen Prajdić, on the part “XEvents”, I will now be giving a […]
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Security Session „SQL Attack..ed“ – Attack scenarios on SQL Server (“Hacking SQL Server”)

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At this year’s SQLSaturday in Germany I have shown one of my sessions again, in which I concentrate on “attack”. For me a great opportunity to dive deep into SQL Server Security and several penetration-test-tool, and to explore SQL Server for pitfalls and security configuration. At the end I had a long list of possible […]
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Conferences 2013: Frankfurt Database Days and a couple of “Oracle-Moments”

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I usually try to announce my conference participation in advance in order to give readers a chance to possibly plan them. Due to a severe lack of time and because I jumped in spontaneously for an absent speaker only a week before the conference, I didn’t manage to give you a heads-up this time.
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