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Today I will be presenting a Free Training
Webinar for Pragmatic Works at 11:00 am US EST.
My topic is Page & Row Compression How, Why, and When. This will be the 8th time this
year that I have done this presentation!
And yet the topic never get’s old to me. Compression to me is like watching Sports
Center, every time you use it you find something different, something new,
something that you didn’t notice the first time around.
“So Balls”, you say, “Why did you team up with Pragmatic Works
and Why should I listen to you present on Compression?”
Great Questions Dear Reader let’s dive right in!
WHY
PRAGMATIC WORKS?
Since I have moved to Florida I kept hearing all
these great things about a company named Pragmatic Works. At my first SQL Saturday I met a guy named
Jeremy Sirois (@JeremySirois ). Jeremy is a Regional Account Manager for
Pragmatic Works. He’s from up North, I
grew up in the Midwest. We talked we
joked around it was a fun evening. That
night I also met Brian Knight (@brianknight
| Blog) for
the first time. We talked only briefly
he was nice down to earth, and extremely tall.
I mean crazy tall, I’m picking him in a game of basketball tall. So tall to dunk the ball he has to bend over
tall. I’m just saying….. the man is
tall.
I soon met Adam Jorgensen (@Adam_jorgensen |Blog ), Devin Knight (@Knight_devin | Blog ) who is up to his
eyeballs in beautiful baby twins right now (CONGRATULATIONS DEVIN!!), Jorge Segarra
(@SQLChicken | Blog), Mike Davis (@MikeDavisSQL | Blog), and Gareth Swanapoel (@GarethSwan | Blog).
All of these gentlemen I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to talk with,
to see in action as presenters, volunteers, and experts within our
community. And I enjoyed every minute of
it. I’m thrilled that I get to hang out
with such wonderful people.
But that wasn’t all Dear Reader, not only were
these top notch professionals I soon found out they are Top Notch human beings,
and it starts from the Top Down. I’ll
point you over to Brian Knight’s Community
Manifesto at Pragmatic Works for more.
Pragmatic Works gives away seat’s in their
Webinars, not the Free ones that I’m doing, but seats in the Paying Ones to unemployed
people within our community. They work
with Veterans who have served our country Bravely to give them training
opportunities to learn new technical skills after they come home and transition
to civilian life. They donate their time
to the Community through SQL Saturdays, and free Webinars of their own. They team with Microsoft and I’ve seen quite
a few of those same names presenting over in the beautiful Tampa Offices for
Microsoft for free community events.
They are authors, they are MVP’s, they are
Patriots, and they are just all around good human beings. When I got the opportunity to participate I jumped
with both feet and anytime you get the opportunity to learn from them you
should jump as well.
Speaking of which Mike & Jorge are just two
of the four Pragmatic Works speakers who will be teaching a full day Pre-Con
for SQL Saturday in Orlando on September 23rd. Click here to view that
full day of training for only $99 (this price includes lunch, coffee, and tea)!
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND!
One of the most important things I’ve found is
the steps you should take in determining what it is you should be
compressing. As a matter of fact I’ve
even made a Monday Morning
Checklist that you can download that will give you the steps that I would
follow if I was there sitting with you trying to determine what to compress.
And all of the Scripts that you will see today
are available for download on my Resources Page. I’ve taken a lot of time to learn about this fascinating
and very new technology so I can help you learn what you need to know as
quickly as possible. Personally I could
spend days, and I have, just working on Compression.
But you don’t have time for that! You need to understand how it works so you
can report on it to your Boss, but you want to make sure that you don’t learn
it so quick that you end up forgetting it.
That is one of the MANY great things about Pragmatic Works is this
Webinar will be online afterwards for you to download it and re-watch it. My samples and my Deck will be Up on my
website. I will continue to blog on this
topic, and you can find a lot of great ways to continue to educate
yourself. However this Webinar provides
you a wonderful opportunity to ask me questions live and in person.
And I will make you the promise that I make at every
conference, if you ask me a question and I do not know the answer I will
research it and I will Blog on it. Some
of the best learning I have done on the topic of Compression came after SQL
Rally. I got a lot of wonderful
questions, and I scoured over all the fun things I could do with compression
and I wrote on every single topic. Don’t
be afraid to ask, your question just might be the one that pushes me to keep on
learning.
Thanks,
Brad
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