Dec 5 2009
A month ago many of you who read this blog were either sitting in sessions, half-way through the last PASS Community Summit, or were hearing about it though Twitter, blog posts, etc. So, what have you taken away from those sessions? We all leave these events with minds full and fingers itchy; ready to get [...]
Nov 16 2009
It’s been a week now since the 2009 PASS Community Summit ended. The last of us filed out of Seattle on Monday and here it is, Monday all over again. So did you implement anything you learned at the Summit yet? All those fresh ideas in your head are starting to get swept out by those [...]
Nov 12 2009
(…put down Cleveland) I’d like to thank Jeremiah Peschka (twitter | web) for inviting me to speak at the Columbus SQL Server Users Group November meeting tonight. Through technical difficulties with Live Meeting (their end) and the oncoming symptoms of the flu (my end) I think it went off pretty well. The slide deck and queries [...]
Nov 5 2009
I’ve been orbiting in and around Buck Woody’s (web / twitter) circle of sweetness since we co-presented on SQL Server DMVs yesterday for Quest Software’s Breakfast with the Experts panel. Without getting into what I’ve learned from him on a technical level (much) I did learn that he is an equal-opportunity offender. Here is just the [...]
Nov 3 2009
I’m sitting here at the Blogger’s table between @mrdenny (Denny Cherry) and @BrentO (Brent Ozar) heckling PASS President Wayne Snyder listening to the PASS Opening Keynote. Wayne Snyder is up first. Followed by Bob Muglia (President, Server and Tools Business (STB), Microsoft Corporation) and then Ted Kummert (Senior VP Business Platform Division, Microsoft Corporation). It’s too hard to [...]
Oct 30 2009
No, not hook-up, meet-up… I am organizing an informal meetup for those of you that want to keep up with the fitness routine while at the PASS Summit 2009 next week. The Sheraton, where the majority of us are staying, has a great fitness center (excellent by many hotel standards.) We’ll be meeting at the [...]
Oct 26 2009
I’ll be in Seattle in a week. Hope I see each and every one of you there. Even more so, I’d like to see you all have a chance to win a Zune, or an Xbox 360 at the Summit’s opening reception on Monday night. Yes, it is that time of year again. For the [...]
Oct 22 2009
For a while now I promised a post about a night from the 2007 PASS Community Summit in Seattle where a certain SQL Professional found himself wandering the streets homeless. This is that story…
