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SQLAuthority News – Author Video Interview Published Online – Microsoft MVP Summit 2009

Posted in About Me, Database, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Microsoft MVP Award Blog and Microsoft South Asian MVP Blog has published my video interview online. My interview was conducted by Abhishek Kant – Microsoft MVP Lead and Technology Blogger. I am thankful to Abhishek Kant for conducting my interview, Abhishek Baxi for publishing on South Asian Blog and Jas Dhaliwal for producing the video. Above All I am very thankful to Microsoft for awarding me MVP Award. This video was shot at Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 at Seattle.

Watch my Video on Microsoft MVP Award Blog

Watch my Video on Microsoft South Asian MVP Blog

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Complete Wrapup of Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 Trip

Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today I have arrived in India and back to Ahmedabad. I have left my home on 27th February and arrived back at my home on 9th March. I was traveling for total of 10 days out of 2 days were just technically included as they were very little occupied. I was traveling for 3 days out of remaining 8 days. This leaves me with total of 5 business day. This five days I worked for nearly 16 hours everyday attending Microsoft MVP summit technical sessions, having meetings with industry leaders and learning new things. I have posted my complete tour details on this blog. I encourage all of you to visit my daily posts and photos.

I have one confession to make. I have been avoiding to use twitter for very long time as I was assuming just like any other social media, I will be addicted to it. I finally decided to use twitter and I love it. I have started to use twitter more often and will plan to use it onwards.

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asian MVPs at Global MVP Summit 2009

SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada and Toronto CA Solutions

SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Toronto, Canada – Insert Image in Database

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote of Steve Ballmer

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 3 – Party Day and SQL Celebrity Photos

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 1 – Summit Welcome and Keynotes

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 0 – About Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Database Industry Discussion – Live From London Airport and Sheraton Seattle

SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Journey Begins

I have been covering Microsoft MVP Summit as much as I can however, this event was very large and I was not able to cover everything. There are few things I would still like to give opinion and I expect fellow MVP to help me define it properly.

NDA (Non Disclosing Agreement):
Due to NDA MVPs are not able to discuss anything which we learned there as well what was presented there. I can only say that “It was Great!”

Tech Sessions:
For SQL Server we had great back to back technical sessions. We were able to meet some really great people there. I am glad that I met people who are behind SQL Server Product Team.

Weather:
Weather was very kind to us. I had heard it was snowing the day before we reached at Seattle. During our stay the weather was very pleasent and we all enjoyed occasional rain drops.

Food:
Food was great. I personally enjoyed Indian Vegetarian food available there. SQL Server MVP had special dinner organized at Maggianos and it was delicious.

Party:
We had one of the best party of Seattle at Experience Music Project (EMP). Checkout my blog post above to see my photo performing crazy along with some very known SQL MVPs.

Recession:
Some MVPs discussed that recession is catching up with MVP event but I honestly think it was as best as it can. Every year MVP Summit is organized differently and it has to be different.

Best Moment:
When I was of the MVP selected as ‘MVP Choice Award’. Read more about MVP Choice Award on my friend Arnie Rowland‘s blog.

Good Related Reading: (Feel free add other site – including yours too)

The MVP Summit Wrapup

MVP Summit 2009 -A Most Excellent Adventure

My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 1 Part 3

Day Two Of 2009 MVP Global Summit

The aftermaths of the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009

The South Asia MVP Blog – Power through SQL interviews

Following is my travel itinerary so far: (I just included itinerary here as I had included in all of my previous posts)

Feb 27, 2009 – Departing Ahmedabad to Mumbai
Feb 28, 2009 – Departing Mumbai to Seattle Sheraton Hotel
March 1, 2009 – Day 1 at MVP Summit
March 2, 2009 – Day 2 at MVP Summit
March 3, 2009 – Day 3 at MVP Summit
March 4, 2009 – Day 4 at MVP Summit
March 5, 2009 – Departing Seattle to Toronto
March 6, 2009 – Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada
March 7, 2009 – Departing Toronto to Mumbai
March 8, 2009 – Missing Day due to Day Line Crossing
March 9, 2009 – Arriving to Ahmedabad

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asian MVPs at Global MVP Summit 2009

Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on March 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I am currently at Mumbai Airport and waiting for my flight to Ahmedabad. I am little exhausted but had great time at Global MVP Summit 2009. There were lots of South Asian MVPs present at global event as well. We all had great time to network with each other and few of the MVPs who had arrived day before summit had great time touring Seattle together. We all MVPs had learned so many things about each other and shared some internal tips with each other. One thing we all decided is guest blogging, where we will write blog article for each other MVP to bring fresh content and different aspect of technology.

I am sharing few of the group photos of the South Asian MVPs. Those who had not attended this event from South Asia, I suggest that you do it next time because it is the one opportunity when we all get chance to meet world industry leaders and most importantly to Microsoft Product Group. Everybody dream about meeting their technology heroes and for me everybody I wanted to meet was only possible as I was present at summit.

Jaykrishnana, Mohammad, Satya, Mahesh, Ravi, Suprotim, Mehfuz, Pinal, Jacob, Abhishek, Kalyan

South Asian MVP, Abhishek Bakshi (very left) and Howard Lo (third from left)

Suprotim, Mahesh, Abhishek, Kalyan, Ravi, Pinal

Mahefuz, Pinal, Ravi, Mahesh, Jaykrishishanan, Suprotim, Geetesh, Kalyan

Vijay, Mahesh, Pinal, Suprotim, Ravi

Ravi, Mahesh, Vijay, Pinal, Suprotim

Vijay, Ravi, Mahesh, Suprotim, Pinal

Suprotim, Ravi, Mahesh, Jaykrishnan, Pinal, Vijay

If you have any more photographs like this, I suggest to post link to here or send them to me in email and I will update this article.

Following is my travel itinerary so far:

Feb 27, 2009 – Departing Ahmedabad to Mumbai
Feb 28, 2009 – Departing Mumbai to Seattle Sheraton Hotel
March 1, 2009 – Day 1 at MVP Summit
March 2, 2009 – Day 2 at MVP Summit
March 3, 2009 – Day 3 at MVP Summit
March 4, 2009 – Day 4 at MVP Summit
March 5, 2009 – Departing Seattle to Toronto
March 6, 2009 – Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada
March 7, 2009 – Departing Toronto to Mumbai
March 8, 2009 – Missing Day due to Day Line Crossing
March 9, 2009 – Arriving to Ahmedabad

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Toronto, Canada – Insert Image in Database

Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , , on March 6, 2009 | 9 Comments »

I am traveling to Toronto from Microsoft MVP Sumeet. I will be very tired as I am continuously working very hard from last 27th Feb. I am still Jet Legged from my trip from India to USA and now I am again changing time zones by visiting Canada. I get all my energy from feeling that what I am doing is helping community and I am working hard to help people who are looking for help.

Interestingly Steven Biggins, a reader of this blog was with me in same flight to Canada. He recognized me and asked me following question. As I have never done this before I had to pull out my laptop in flight and start writing code. Following T-SQL script demonstrates the code which inserts the image in database. You will need small image on your hard drive to create this example. You can download Image and T-SQL Code.

USE [AdventureWorks]
GO
--Create Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ImageTest](
[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Image] [varbinary](MAX) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
--Insert Image
INSERT INTO [dbo].[ImageTest]([Image])
SELECT * FROM
OPENROWSET(BULK N'C:\ImageCode\sa.jpg', SINGLE_BLOB) AS Document
GO
--Clean Up DB
DROP TABLE [dbo].[ImageTest]
GO

Now my question to reader is how to retrieve the image and create JPG file again. I will post the solution soon but I rather prefer that the solution provided by my reader.

Following is my travel itinerary so far:

Feb 27, 2009 – Departing Ahmedabad to Mumbai
Feb 28, 2009 – Departing Mumbai to Seattle Sheraton Hotel
March 1, 2009 – Day 1 at MVP Summit
March 2, 2009 – Day 2 at MVP Summit
March 3, 2009 – Day 3 at MVP Summit
March 4, 2009 – Day 4 at MVP Summit
March 5, 2009 – Departing Seattle to Toronto
March 6, 2009 – Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada
March 7, 2009 – Departing Toronto to Mumbai
March 8, 2009 – Missing Day due to Day Line Crossing
March 9, 2009 – Arriving to Ahmedabad

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote of Steve Ballmer

Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

An action pack day with lots of tech session and 4 back to back Keynote sessions is over. Steve Ballmer presented one of the keynote where all attendees really felt energetic. Steve is the person who has so much energy that may be 16 year old kid feel older in front of him. Just like his style, he came in and took over complete session under his charm. I really wish, I could have shared more information but due to NDA I can not share it. It was explicitly expressed that photographs are allowed to take and publish so I am publishing them here.

Steve

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer

After one of the best keynote, we all Indian MVP met again and had one last round of get to gather for this summit. We are expecting that we will all meet again next year. It is really great that I was able to meet some of the best technological gurus from my own country.

India MVP

India MVP

Brad MacGhee had hosted special dinner for MVPs and 15 MVPs attended it. It was very good but again due to NDA I will not share the details for the same. Brad is very good listener and he listened my suggestions, requests and questions with calm and note it down. I am sharing the photo of the event here and I will remove it if anybody objects.

Dinner with Brad

Dinner with Brad

I was very fortunate to meet Arnie Rowland today as well. He is one really nice person. I am personally very impressed with him from his writing and active participation in MSDN forums. Due to this I was little shy to approach him but he is one friendly man and always approached me right away. He gave me some good advise about how I can improve my skills and also do remarkably contribution to MSDN along with SQLAuthority.com. Arnie also explained me that it is very important to encourage new members of the community as one of the new member will be future MVP.

Pinal Dave, Arnie Rowland

Pinal Dave, Arnie Rowland

I will be now beginning my journey to Canada in next 4 hours and looking forward to meet some SQL Geeks at Toronto.

Following is my travel itinerary so far:

Feb 27, 2009 – Departing Ahmedabad to Mumbai
Feb 28, 2009 – Departing Mumbai to Seattle Sheraton Hotel
March 1, 2009 – Day 1 at MVP Summit
March 2, 2009 – Day 2 at MVP Summit
March 3, 2009 – Day 3 at MVP Summit
March 4, 2009 – Day 4 at MVP Summit
March 5, 2009 – Departing Seattle to Toronto
March 6, 2009 – Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada
March 7, 2009 – Departing Toronto to Mumbai
March 8, 2009 – Missing Day due to Day Line Crossing
March 9, 2009 – Arriving to Ahmedabad

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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