Dear Mr. or Mrs. Manager,
Someone’s sending you this because they want to go to the PASS Summit in Seattle.
I’m Brent, a guy who’s active in the community and I’ve been to a couple of summits, and they want me to explain why it’s worth the money.
What’s the PASS Summit and How Much Does It Cost?
It’s [...]
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PASS Summit Keynote Notes (#sqlpass)
It’s Friday, it’s 8:30 AM, and it’s time for another keynote.
10:03 - Done. Wow, he was awesome for engine guys like me! Off to the sessions…
10:02 - DeWitt’s Gray Systems Lab is working with the DATAllegro team to build a new “world-class parallel optimizer” to make it easier to work around partition skew, among other [...]
PASS Summit 2008 Thursday Recap (#sqlpass)
PASS Board Election Results Dribbling In
Andy Warren is in! He talks about it on his blog, and I got a huge chuckle out of this part:
I didn’t have any idea what my chances were, I really didn’t do a lot of campaigning (hard to figure out a way to do it that didn’t seem icky [...]
PASS Summit Keynote by Tom Casey (#sqlpass)
I’ll be liveblogging this morning’s keynotes at the PASS Summit. Refresh this page for the latest news.
10:02 - Tom’s focusing on the ROI of BI, and suddenly I get it. The database engine works great. Now we’re bolting things on top of it to make every end user in the company see the value of [...]
Jimmy May explains Partition Alignment (#sqlpass)
Before attending this session, I’ve always gone to KB article 929491 article on partition alignment. I thought I kinda sorta understood what was going on, but Jimmy’s presentation drew on the best graphical illustrations to show it. Not to mention his audio stylings like, “Holy correlated wait stats!”
Partition alignment is one of those hidden performance [...]
PASS Summit 2008 Wednesday Keynote (#sqlpass)
I’m liveblogging the keynote this morning on here and on my Twitter feed. Go to this page and refresh it periodically to get the latest news as it happens. Updates are at the top of the page to make reading easier during liveblogs, and I’ll reverse it tonight for easier reading later.
10:08 - And that’s [...]
How was everything?
Restaurant managers make regular tours through their restaurant talking to each table asking, “How was everything? Was everything cooked the way you like it?” It’s called touching tables, and sometimes when you see an old-school manager doing it, he’ll actually touch the table. In theory, it’s supposed to make the customer feel welcome and surface [...]
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 [...]
