On September 15th I'll be presenting a 3 session event entitled Power Up with SQL Server. This is a FREE training event hosted by SQL Server Magazine/Windows IT Pro, so if you'd like to learn about whether or not you should virtualize your SQL Servers (and how to best do that), ways to improve database availability, or how to get a grip on performance tuning, then be sure to sign up. Right now there are over 1,000 people registered for Power Up with SQL Server, and there's also an event scheduled in EMEA in November (with different speakers) as well.

Overview
Here's a snippet stolen from the links above. But if you're interested in learning more, go check out the Agenda – which provides a better overview of the three sessions we'll be covering.

Don't wait any longer! Stop merely using SQL Server and start unleashing it to maximize its full potential! Make plans to attend "Power Up with SQL Server," an interactive live virtual event produced by SQL Server Magazine.
Join SQL Server expert, consultant, and author Michael K. Campbell in a clear, insightful, and independent look at ways in which your business can better take advantage of SQL Server capabilities to decrease management costs and improve reliability, uptime and performance.
In just three hours, directly from your own computer you will:

• See how virtualization and consolidation benefits apply to SQL Server and understand why there's never been a better time to virtualize SQL Server deployments.
• Learn how to best virtualize SQL Server in order to optimize provisioning, uptime and consolidation without allowing virtualization to impair workload throughput.
• Understand the benefits and limitations of each of SQL Server's native high-availability options, and learn how to evaluate each option based upon business needs, network latency and other real-world considerations.
• Learn the difference between High-Availability solutions and disaster recovery solutions and ensure that both critical concerns are handled in the best way possible.
• Gain insights into what causes SQL Server performance problems and learn about the best ways to profile, load-test and tune SQL Server workloads rather than just throwing more and more expensive hardware at each problem as it is encountered.

Free Subscription to SQL Server Magazine
As a bonus, anyone who registers for this event gets a free 1-year digital subscription to SQL Server Magazine. You can't beat that.