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24 Hours of PASS (well kind of)
So last night I thought I started off in the first session of 24 hours of PASS with Paul and Louis, and I had originally picked 5 sessions that I was going to attend and I originally planned to stick...
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SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for FREE? (Seriously)
The Data Platform Team at Microsoft blogged about this already: http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2009/09/03/get-a-free-copy-of-sql-server-2008-standard-edition.aspx If you attend...
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24 Hours of PASS Recordings - Pre/Post-Conference Speaker Sessions Available
The session recordings from 24 hours of PASS for the Pre/Post-Conference Speakers at PASS Summit have been made available on the SQL PASS Website. It’s not very intuitive where exactly you have to...
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Less than two weeks to PASS Summit 2009
Coming right off a excellent weekend in Central Florida with SQL Saturday, PASS Summit is now less than two weeks away. Hopefully by now you have already registered since there was a lower price for...
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SQL PASS Twitter Bingo - Join the Fun
This year at PASS, SQLServerPedia in conjunction with PASS and Quest Software is hosting a Twitter Bingo game. Rules are available on Stuart Ainsworth's blog post here . I am not a face on a card...
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SQL PASS 2009 Takeaways
I am just getting home from SQL PASS Summit 2009 and by the time you read this it will have been over 12 hrs since I actually wrote it. (Turns out it took over 96hrs to actually get this posted...
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The benefits of attending PASS realized!
A lot of conversation this year occurred regarding return on investment (ROI) justifications tending the PASS Summit. Lets face it, the economy has been tough on a lot of businesses and the idea of...
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Q: Should You Present At Your Local User Group?
A: You Bet!!! Lets face it, User Groups need speakers and while its great to have the experts in the industry like Andy Leonard, Buck Woody, or Joe Webb come to your user group, if you get one of them...
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Follow Up on Failed Connections and Threadpool waits
A comment was posted on my blog post The benefits of attending PASS realized! asking for a follow up as a result of investigating this problem. In that post, I mentioned that a high number of unused...
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PASS Session Evaluations
Tonight I got my session evaluations back from PASS for the first large presentation I have ever done. I am somewhat surprised by the results, they are actually much better than I expected. I...
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Have the Experts at your Fingertips! Buy the PASS Summit DVDs!
Last year after returning from PASS Summit, I blogged about The benefits of attending PASS realized! , where I provided a specific example of how attending had helped me in troubleshooting a problem in...
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PASS 2010 Birds of a Feather Lunch
We are just weeks away from the #SQLPASS North American Summit for 2010 and yesterday. Mike Walsh ( Blog | Twitter ) posted the list of topics for the Birds of a Feather Lunch event that was started...
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PASS Summit 2010 – Session Presentations and Demos
I know I am late on actually publishing these, but here are the presentation slide decks and demo’s from the two sessions I presented at PASS Summit 2010. Attached to this post are two zip files that...
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