Great SSIS Boot Camp by Brian Knight
Brian’s a fantastic presenter - really funny, really engaging, and can answer questions on his feet. The one-day presentation was a great way to get started, and I ordered his Professional SSIS 2008 book to answer my questions as I start digging into SSIS.
One indicator of a good presentation [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pass’
PASS Summit 2008 Monday Recap (#sqlpass)
PASS Board of Directors Election Update
PASS has posted the list of candidates, but there’s no bio info yet. Fear not - the community is doing a great job of not just keeping up, but getting ahead! I love communities in the age of social networking.
TJay Belt is doing a great job of centralizing information about the candidates for PASS Board. [...]
Breakfast event at PASS on Thursday - still seats available!
Repeating this post from last month because I found out there’s still room available:
This year at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Quest Software is sponsoring an expert panel event on automating SQL Server processes. Sounds boring, right? Think again - here’s when you need to check out process automation:
You can’t hire help (either [...]
My endorsements for the PASS Board
When I was a DBA, before I got this “rock star” job, I didn’t have the time to get involved enough with the SQL Server community to really know the people running for the PASS Board. I had a “real job”, and when I cast my vote, I was basing my decision off a paragraph [...]
What would you ask Microsoft and PASS?
What if you could sit down with these guys and ask ‘em any questions you wanted:
Tom Casey, Microsoft SQL Server BI General Manager. Tom’s giving the Thursday keynote about SQL Server’s business intelligence strategy beyond SQL Server 2008. My guess (and this is only a guess, not based on any behind-the-scenes info) is that [...]
Live-blogging the Seattle PASS Summit Keynotes
Whoa - I’ve hit the big time! I got an email inviting me to be one of a handful of SQL Server industry bloggers who’ll get reserved seating with power and internet access during the PASS Summit keynotes. Awesome! That means I’ll be able to post live updates via my Twitter feed and here on [...]
SQL Server experts breakfast panel at PASS
This year at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Quest Software is sponsoring an expert panel event on automating SQL Server processes. Sounds boring, right? Think again - here’s when you need to check out process automation:
You can’t hire help (either no budget or no available people) and you can’t keep up
Your number of servers keeps [...]
PASS 2008 Summit Meetups
If you’re going to the Professional Association for SQL Server summit in Seattle, let’s meet up! Here’s my travel info:
Flight in: Houston to Seattle, Continental 1767 - arrives Sunday, 11:41 AM
Hotel: Sunday to Tuesday night, Hotel 1000. Rest of week, Sheraton.
Flight out: Seattle to Houston, Continental 223 - leaves Saturday, 6:10 AM
Cell: 281-433-4054
Twitter (will be [...]
Travel Tips for Non-Frequent-Flyers
To my readers who are traveling to one of the upcoming fall conferences, here’s a few of my favorite travel tips.
Use SeatGuru.com to get the best seat.
I’m not talking about first class versus coach - even in coach, not all seats are created equal. Every plane has some surprise seats that have more room or [...]
