Monthly Archives: April 2011

I am pleased to announce Confio is a SQL Excursions sponsor

I am please to announce that Confio has come on board as a sponsor for our Napa SQL Excursion.  If you don’t know Confio, and you haven’t tried their Ignite monitoring software for SQL Server then you really should.  It … Continue reading

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Registration for our Napa SQL Excursion is open

We are pleased to announce that registration for the first SQL Excursion is open.   There will be sessions on September 22-23 and September 24th will be an optional all-day wine tour which will have a small additional cost based … Continue reading

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How SQL Excursions came to be

Every company has a story about how they got started.  Some are interesting, some are surprisingly standard.  Here’s how the company known as SQL Excursions came to be. Back in November 2010 Kris (twitter) and I were having dinner (at … Continue reading

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Heading to Napa to check out hotels for our first excursion

Next week Kris and I will be heading up to Napa (it’s a tough job I know, but someone has to do it) to check out hotels and pick the hotel that our first Excursion will be held at, and … Continue reading

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There will be a SQL Rockstar among us for our first excursion

With as much fanfare as I can muster, I’m pleased to announce that our first excursion will have an awesome guest speaker. You know him as a Microsoft MVP, SQL PASS board member, Database Administrator for Confio, and my good … Continue reading

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Be sure to sign up for the SQL Excursions Insiders mailing list

Signing up for our SQL Excursions Insiders mailing list does come with some perks, the most important of which will be that you’ll get early announcements about our upcoming Excursions, giving you the ability to sign up for the Excursions … Continue reading

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