Last weekend at SQL Saturday #63 Dallas, I presented a session titled “How to Curse in an Interview”.  It clearly contains some NSFW language, but it was really a good session, and I got a lot of positive feedback.  The recorded session is up on the MidnightDBA Events page. 

Here is the abstract:

How to curse in an interview

Prof. Development Track –2:45 pm to 3:45 pm

This session will take a hard look at different things that happen in interviews and give you what you need to know to get that next job. This isn’t a recruiter session that’ll tell you to wear a tie and smile. I’m a real Sr. DBA who hires DBAs all the time. I’m going to tell you what we look for in a DBA, and the types of things you should and shouldn’t say. I’ll show you how to pass a tech screening and get past the HR portion as well. Your mama can teach you how to dress. I’m gonnateach you how to get hired. You seriously can’t afford to miss this discussion because it’ll be the most candid anyone will ever be with you about interviews. This will be a fun and very interactive session.

And as long as we’re here, here are a few other things I’ve presented at SQL Saturdays:

• Beginning Powershell 1.0
• Beginning Powershell 1.5
• Deploying SSIS Packages with Powershell—Code
• It’s not called Wussyshell!—Code

Here I’ll show you how to uninstall a CU from SQL Server 2008 R2, CU5 to be specific, but it doesn’t matter. Here there’s a special circumstance where the original install media location doesn’t exist anymore so you have to specify it during the uninstall.

• Title: Uninstall a CU in SQL Server 2008 R2 (right click here to download the WMV file)
• Date: 3/28/2011
• Length: 4:14
• Size: 7,122 KB

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Here’s the scenario: Users are complaining that queries are timing out, but nobody knows what queries or SPs go with what tabs on the front end. It’s up to you to find out where the problem is…

This new video shows you how to get query timeouts from a profiler trace.

• Title:  Find query timeouts in Profiler (right click here to download the WMV file)
• Date: 2/15/2011
• Length: 8:26
• Size: 15,941 KB

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Here’s the first of a series of backup/restore classes taught at the NTSSUG. This series is meant to cover everything about backups… or at least as much as we can squeeze into 6 sessions. You’ll learn how to put together an enterprise backup solution, tune your backups for maximum performance, and manage them across your company no matter how many servers you have. The file used for this class can be found here.

Here are the other series-style classes I’ve taught at NTSSUG:

• Ground Zero SSIS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Beginning Powershell for DBAs 1: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

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