Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Talking about Service Broker at SQL Saturday #101: Kansas City

I am happy to share, that SQL Saturday #101, Kansas City has offered me the opportunity to be a first time speaker! After being a first timer at the PASS Summit this year, speaking at SQL Saturday is going to be another exciting first timer activity for me this month.

A few days before the PASS summit, the good folks at SQL Saturday #101 accepted my session. I got to meet with Bill Fellows at the PASS summit and thank him for giving me this opportunity. I will be speaking about "Asynchronous programming with Service Broker" - a beginner level session. Without divulging too much detail, I am just going to say that SQL Server professionals who also happen to be Food Network fans and asynchronous messaging enthusiasts, are going to love it !

I was fascinated by Service broker, after attending Arie Jones "Getting started with Service Broker" session at SQL Saturday #82, Indianapolis earlier this year. I have been a Service broker enthusiast ever since. I found a lot of good use for service broker in a wide range of applications, learned quite a few things while setting them up and had to put out a lot of fires! Now, I am looking forward to share some my experiences.
 
I have been spending the past couple of weeks refining my slide deck, setting up a good demo, practicing my public speaking skills and bothering my colleges/SQL buddies to review my material. I am starting appreciate how much effort goes into creating a session for a such an event. Makes one wonder how the speakers at the PASS Summit manage to make it look so easy!



The session line up for SQL Saturday#101 is pretty impressive. I am definitely looking forward to a Saturday of SQL learning as well as some Kansas City Barbecue. It's only been two weeks since PASS, but I was starting to miss the SQL Server Community. If you haven't already registered for it, please register and make every effort to attend. It's only 4 days away, on 10/29. You can stay updated using the twitter hashtag #sqlsaturday101. I can assure you that it will be worth your time!

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