Conferences and Classes

The lineup for the PASS Data Community Summit is out, and in addition to my pre-conference workshop on Mastering Parameter Sniffing, I’m also teaching two sessions: Everything You Know About Parallelism Is Wrong. Just because you see parallelism icons on execution plans doesn’t mean the query went parallel. SQL Server doesn’t load-balance work across CPU cores.…

At the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle on November 12th, I’m teaching a one-day pre-conference workshop. This year, the Summit is a hybrid event: you can either attend in-person in Seattle, or online via live streaming. If you attend online, PASS is recording the live stream, and you’ll be able to re-watch it during the…

For years, the biggest conference in the Microsoft data platform community has been the PASS Summit. This November 15-18, it’s coming back to the Seattle Convention Center. You can attend in person, or virtually. I’m going to be there in person. It’s not a decision I take lightly – I still get nervous when I…

The PASS Summit is November 15-18 in Seattle this year. This time around, it’s a hybrid conference, with both speakers and attendees in a mix between in-person and remote. I’m really excited to get back to in-person events. I recently attended SQLBits in London, and I actually got emotional at the sight of so many…

Succeeding as a data professional is all about placing the right bets at the right times. The more you know about what’s happening around you, the better bets you can place. I’ve been working with databases for over two decades. In this session, I’ll invite you into my home to have a frank, honest discussion…

This afternoon, PASS announced that their operations will cease in January: We are saddened to tell you that, due to the impact of COVID-19, PASS is ceasing all regular operations, effective January 15, 2021. We encourage you to take full advantage of any access that you have to PASS content between now and January 15,…