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• Travel tips - tagged by Kevin!

  This is a bit overdue as Kevin Kline tagged me in a meme post to help people get ready for their travel to PASS. However, we were too busy with travel (we were in Australia at the time) to get to it. And, while this year's PASS has past, it's Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:28 AM from Kimberly L. Tripp | (Comments Off) Filed under: Conferences, Opinions

• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives (book for charity)

  Well... it's finally been released and last week was the book launch. This book came together first as a goal by Paul Nielsen who was motivated by Steve Ballmer's request that MVPs "give back" even more and even outside of the direct Read More... Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:17 AM from Kimberly L. Tripp | (Comments Off) Filed under: Conferences, resources

• Last Chance - Part of a LIVE Audience AND to save $$$

  Sep 15 is the last day to be a part of history for 24 Hours of PASS. Louis and Paul will be doing a 2nd take of their session for 24 Hours of PASS. Register at the following link : https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000181573/Registration.aspx?pageName=qh37c3hrckwswsj5...( Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:37 PM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, Education, Events, Conferences

• The fall line-up and event list - we hope to see you there!

  We've finally booked all of our tickets and started planning final details for all our of our classes and conferences this fall. We've got quite a few things planned and tons of great content at each. By continent, here's the plan: Europe Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:35 AM from Kimberly L. Tripp | (Comments Off) Filed under: Events, Conferences

• Best Thing that I learned at PASS

  I remember my first PASS Summit in Denver in January 2002 (Delayed from Sep 2001 in Orlando due to Sep 11). One of the last sessions that I attended was led by Fabian Pascal. He runs a website called www.dbdebunk.com and is rather entertaining at times....( Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:55 AM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Community, fun, Education, Events, Conferences

• May Day! May Day! Early Bird registration for 2009 PASS Community Summit Ends May 1st!

  Just last week, the call fro abstracts ended. At the end of this week, the rates will bump up. See below for more information on some great reasons to come to the 2009 PASS Community Summit.... Of course the number one reason isn't even listed here - Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:19 AM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Community, Events, Conferences

• Heading to TechEd in about 6 weeks

  I have been attending Teched every year since 2005. Last year, I really did not like the separation that was "forced" between IT Pro and Dev. I like to attend sessions from both areas - SQL covers both areas. I am glad they combined it this year (as it Read More... Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:16 PM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, Education, Events, Conferences, SQL 2008

• Good strategies - excellent improvements... thanks Jim!

  This morning, I woke to a wonderful email and I thought I would share it: Good morning Kimberly, I just wanted to send you an email to let you know how awesome you are! I have applied some of your indexing strategies to our website’s homegrown CMS Read More... Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:47 AM from Kimberly L. Tripp | (Comments Off) Filed under: Conferences, Personal

• SQLConnections call for abstracts!

  We've opened up the call for abstracts for the FALL Connections show and Paul's already blogged all about it. Because most of you read both of our blogs, I won't repeat it here but - if you don't read Paul's blog ( ah, really - you Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 1:11 PM from Kimberly L. Tripp | (Comments Off) Filed under: Events, Conferences

• Parallel Data Processing

  While working on several other items earlier tonight, I remembered that the PASS Keynotes were on the PASS website from this past Summit. Perhaps one of the best keynotes that I had heard in sometime was by Dr. David DeWitt. This keynote was more like Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:42 PM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, Education, Events, Conferences, Future SQL

• Getting started in speaking publicly - clear and concise presentations

  Well, I had wanted to come up with a clever reply to my husband's oh-so-romantic blog post ( here ). And, well, in all honesty, that *is* the best present for me... but, probably not what most would say is romantic ;-). We've both had quite an Read More... Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 7:00 AM from Kimberly L. Tripp | (Comments Off) Filed under: Conferences, Opinions, Presenting

• Attend a SQL Server User Group Meeting - Today (Nov 12) - From Virtually Anywhere

  I posted earlier that we are holding an organizational meeting in a virtual world called "Second Life". Second Life is a Virtual World where you interact with others by voice or typing or gestures. Here are the details: Where: Microsoft User Group Island Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:27 PM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, fun, Education, Events, Conferences, User Group Meetings

• Preview the Sessions at PASS

  Several Presenters have been kind enough to share a "preview" of their sessions at PASS. These are availabile in the "PASSTips" section at www.sqlpass.org . One of the featured previews today is one from Peter DeBetta on security. Check it out. Hopefully, Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:39 AM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, Education, Events, Conferences

• New PASS Preview posted - CSS Team at PASS

  Customer Support Services always has a big presence at PASS. This year is no exception. Recently, Bob Ward was kind enough to provide a PASS Preview of the two pre-confernece sessions (all day events) and an overview of the other activities that the CSS Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 5:54 AM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, Education, Events, Conferences

• Get a Sneak Peak of the Sessions at PASS

  PASS has started to ask Speakers to record a 5-minute overview of their sessions to be presented at PASS in november. Currently, the speakers who have previews up are: Peter DeBetta Paul Randal/Kimberly Tripp John Welch Greg Low Rick Heiges New "PASSPreviews" Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:11 AM from Rick Heiges | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, SQL Community, Education, Events, Conferences