Just got a surprise phone call from Rushabh Mehta and Lynda Rab. Turns out they had a couple of last-minute speaker cancellations here at PASS, and they were wondering if I could give a presentation on Wednesday.
I said, “Are you sure you know who you’re talking to? Did you dial the wrong number, maybe? I’m Brent Ozar, the guy who turned in a handful of abstracts for PASS and got turned down. I wasn’t good enough. And now you want me? NOW, when the chips are down, now you come calling for me to save your bacon? Oh, no. You can sit and spin.”
Okay, no, that’s not really what I said. It went more like this:
“Wow, are you serious? I’d love to!”
So on Wednesday at 1:30PM, I’ll be presenting a session called “Interpreting Perfmon and Profiler Results with Cloud-Based BI.” The abstract goes like this:
So you’ve heard the buzz about cloud-based Business Intelligence, but you can’t figure out how it affects your job as a production database administrator. In this session, Brent Ozar will explain how to use Microsoft’s Table Analysis Tools for the Cloud to get SSAS-type analytics to help tune your servers. This session will help novice and hard-core DBAs alike become better performance tuners.
It’ll be my first PASS Summit presentation. Big money, no whammies….
