I'm looking forward to geauxing with a handful of Sparkhound colleagues and friends to speak at SQL Saturday Birmingham on August 23 at Samford University.

Fun trivia fact: This will be the first time I'll have spoken at a SQL Saturday east of Baton Rouge since SQL Saturday Pensacola stopped happening annually after 2012, but, the second time I'll have spoken this year in the state of Alabama.

I'll be presenting the first two sessions of the DBA track at 8AM and 9:15AM on the topics of SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's and then SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals.

My colleague Cody Gros will be speaking on PowerShell Fundamentals for SharePoint 2010/2013 at 10:30AM in the PowerShell room, then we'll get together for the Sparkhound lunch session at 11:45AM, also in the PowerShell room. My wife will then be giving two presentations after lunch in the Prof Dev \ Misc Room as well, so I'll be there for the duration!

I'll see you there! Don't forget to print your SpeedPASS doc!