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 [...]
PASS Summit 2008 Wednesday Recap (#sqlpass)
Aside from my liveblog of Ted Kummert’s keynote this morning and Jimmy May’s presentation on partition alignment, a few other things caught my eye today.
I talked to JC Cannon about his SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide. I’ve written here about it before, but it bears repeating. If you’re not here at PASS, and you wish [...]
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 [...]
PASS Summit 2008 Tuesday Recap (#sqlpass)
PASS Election Update
I’m seeing a theme on the interwebz: lots of endorsements for Andy Warren and Tom LaRock:
Andy Leonard posted his vote on Twitter for Andy Warren, Lynda Rab and Tom LaRock (SQLBatman).
Brian Kelley posted his endorsements on SQLServerCentral for Andy Warren and Tom LaRock.
Steve Jones posted his endorsements on SQLServerCentral for Andy Warren, Louis [...]
PASS Summit 2008 Monday Recap (#sqlpass)
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 [...]
Presenting on Cloud-Based BI at #SQLPass Wednesday
Just got a surprise phone call from Rushabh Mehta and Lynda Rab. Turns out they had a couple of last-minute speaker cancellations here at PASS, and they were wondering if I could give a presentation on Wednesday.
I said, “Are you sure you know who you’re talking to? Did you dial the wrong number, maybe? I’m [...]
