Earlier this week, PASS opened up the Schedule Builder for the those that are registered for the PASS Summit. You can also take a look at the full schedule with the At A Glance schedule. This is your opportunity to find out what sessions are going to be when during the summit. And for those … Continue reading PASS Summit Schedule
Are you ready for Seattle? Have you registered for the PASS Summit? Hopefully with some good reasons you will be inspired to attend the summit this year. Ten Reasons to Attend There are, of course, countless reasons to attend the PASS Summit in November. To hopefully inspire a few of you holdouts, I am count … Continue reading To Be There Or Not To Be There
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter today at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Using XML to Query Execution Plans. The abstract for the event is the following: SQL Server stores its execution plans as XML in dynamic management views. The execution plans are a gold mine of … Continue reading Webcast Today – Using XML to Query Execution Plans
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter next week. It’ll be on July 28 at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Using XML to Query Execution Plans. The abstract for the event is the following: SQL Server stores its execution plans as XML in dynamic management views. The execution … Continue reading Webcast Next Week – Using XML to Query Execution Plans
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Performance Virtual Chapter later today starting at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Performance Impacts Related to Different Function Types. The abstract for the event is the following: User defined functions provide a means to encapsulate business logic in the database tier. Often the purpose of … Continue reading Webcast Today – Performance Impacts Related to Different Function Types
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Performance Virtual Chapter next week. It’ll be on July 6 at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Performance Impacts Related to Different Function Types. The abstract for the event is the following: User defined functions provide a means to encapsulate business logic in the database tier. … Continue reading Webcast Next Week – Performance Impacts Related to Different Function Types
Go get the popcorn and let's get ready to watch some PASS sessions! Last month PASS hosted an event called 24 Hours of PASS. In this event, there were 24 back to back webcasts that focused on SQL Server and more specifically SQL Server 2008 R2. As if that weren't awesome enough, you can now … Continue reading You Thought You Missed 24 Hours of PASS
I was a little slow at submitting this year, but this afternoon I submitted my ideas for sessions for PASS Summit 2010. If you aren’t aware of this conference – it’s probably the best way out there to learn a ton about SQL Server while networking with the people that use it daily and helped … Continue reading PASS Summit 2010 Submissions
Sure, you could say that making a Jack Bauer reference for the 24 Hours of PASS event is corny and expected. But then you’d be right and I’d have to actually use my creative juices. So we’ll agree on a détente of sorts and just move ahead. Coming up next month… on May 19 beginning … Continue reading A Jack Bauer Event In The Making
The single word that best describes this past weekend is… awesome. While there were some occasional bumps in the road - Wendy Pastrick (blog | twitter), Ted Krueger (blog | twitter), and Aaron Lowe (blog | twitter) deserves major props for putting this together. Outstanding job! There were a couple lumps so I’ll get those … Continue reading SQL Saturday Chicago Recap – #SQLAwesome
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