The keynote today was delivered by Ted Kummert, Corporate VP, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft.  Before Ted started, Wayne Snyder showed up on stage, sitting on a hog and surrounded by smoke or dry ice or something.  He talked about how PASS has grown over the past year in several areas:chapters (136)membership ...

In 2005, PASS was held in Grapevine, Texas.  The conference hotel was called the Gaylord, of all things.  It was quite luxurious -- more of a resort than a hotel -- but miles and miles and miles (and miles) from civilization.  The nearby town was nice enough (with a conspiracy museum, among other fun attractions) but on the day we ...

Recently, the three SQL Server user groups in Colorado hosted the third annual Colorado PASSCamp – this year extending the free event to two days. The second day keynote was a rousing panel discussion hosted and video taped by CS TechCast with SQL Server CatTeam guru Kevin Cox, myself and .Net developer Ben Hoelting. This year we had a ...

I'm writing this at 39K feet on a United 757 flying home to Denver. This week was SQLTeach in Vancouver followed by the PASS Board meeting in Redmond. SQLTeach is a smaller (400-500 attendees fits in a hotel) developer/SQL conference organized by Jean-Rene that rotates across Canada (Montreal - Vancouver - Toronto). This is my third SQL Teach and ...

I have already given a rundown of most everything PASS here on my personal blog, including a series of posts with pictures too over the days of PASS) but since this blog is all about things technical with SQL Server, I wanted to just rundown of some of the cool stuff I learned about SQL Server 2008 that I hadn't heard before... You can index ...

Quest Software/SQL-Server-Performance.com Tip Competition Do you have a great SQL Server tip you would like to share with the community? Quest Software in association with SQL-Server-Performance.com are offering the chance to win tickets to the 2007 PASS summit (valued at $1,895 for non-members of PASS). Not only the tickets, the winners will also ...

Upcoming PASS SIG LiveMeeting - August 22, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m. EDT DBA Special Interest Group presents speaker Brad McGehee Brad will be giving a presentation about SQL Profiler. To read a description of the LiveMeeting, the Biography of Brad McGehee, or get the details on how to attend, click here ....(read more)

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