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• PASS Call for Speakers

  It's that time again - the PASS Summit 2010 (Seattle Nov 8-11) Call for Speakers is now open and accepting abstracts until June 5 th . personally, I'm on a pattern that on odd years I present what I'm excited about, and on even years I try try to proesent...( Read More... Posted Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:10 AM from Paul Nielsen | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, Speaker Coaching

• Another PASS has come and gone

  Wow, what a week! I am just settling in back home after a week away, most of which I spent at the PASS summit in Seattle. Whether you were there or not, you might be interested in my perspective of how the week went, and why this continues to be the best...( Read More... Posted Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:21 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, pass

• Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2009-11-05

  Bill Graziano took the stage and promised us the shortest keynote yet. He started by giving thanks to outgoing board members Greg Low, Pat Wright and Kevin Kline. Wayne Snyder took over and gave an emotional homage to Kevin, who gave 10 solid years to...( Read More... Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 3:24 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and beyond, keynote, column store, SQL 11

• Quest DMV Breakfast Code – Disk IO

  For any of you who attended the Quest breakfast at PASS (and anyone else really) I wanted to go ahead and post the code and give a little wrap up/explanation. (I will post the stuff on perf counters later. They are cool, but this is really what I wanted...( Read More... Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:52 AM from Louis Davidson | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, Dynamic Management, pass, SQL Tools, Speaking, SQL Techniques

• Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2009-11-04

  Rushabh Mehta, PASS President of Finance What makes PASS run? He mentioned CA and Microsoft as founding members. But the overwhelming response from the crowd: we're more interested in free drinks. Stressed financial transparency ... members can log in...( Read More... Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:31 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, bi, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and beyond

• Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2009-11-03

  Highlights We were told that there is going to be a November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. There are two new editions planned for the RTM release: DataCenter Edition (256 logical processors, unlimited virtualization) and Parallel Data Warehouse Edition (formerly...( Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:53 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, SQL Server 2008 R2, Gemini, SQL Server 2008 and beyond, Madison, TPC

• Run into me at PASS, and you could win a prize!

  If you're planning on attending PASS, you should consider playing Twitter Bingo (put on by Quest ). Basically, you will get a randomized card with names and avatars of 25 Twitter users who post about or are otherwise involved with PASS and/or SQL Server....( Read More... Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:03 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, War Child, MVP Deep Dives, twitter bingo

• The Best Thing I've Learned at PASS

  I have attended PASS for several years, and discovered at my very first event that this is an extremely valuable conference to attend. The actual technical tidbits I’ve learned from attending sessions and having conversations with my peers, PASS officials...( Read More... Posted Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:30 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, pass

• PASS Keynote, Wednesday: "Delivering on Our Data Platform Vision"

  The keynote today was delivered by Ted Kummert, Corporate VP, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft. Before Ted started, Wayne Snyder showed up on stage, sitting on a hog and surrounded by smoke or dry ice or something. He talked about how PASS Read More... Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:37 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server 2008, pass, azure, datallegro, SQL data services, killimanjaro, keynotes

• PASS Conference Stories - tagging Adam Machanic and Peter DeBetta

  In 2005, PASS was held in Grapevine, Texas. The conference hotel was called the Gaylord, of all things. It was quite luxurious -- more of a resort than a hotel -- but miles and miles and miles (and miles) from civilization. The nearby town was nice enough Read More... Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 8:15 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, Celko

• 3rd Annual Colorado PASSCamp (w/video!)

  Recently, the three SQL Server user groups in Colorado hosted the third annual Colorado PASSCamp – this year extending the free event to two days. The second day keynote was a rousing panel discussion hosted and video taped by CS TechCast with SQL Server Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:06 AM from Paul Nielsen | (Comments Off) Filed under: pass, video, CS TechCast

• SQLTeach – Vancouver – PASS Board Report

  I'm writing this at 39K feet on a United 757 flying home to Denver. This week was SQLTeach in Vancouver followed by the PASS Board meeting in Redmond. SQLTeach is a smaller (400-500 attendees fits in a hotel) developer/SQL conference organized by Jean-Rene Read More... Posted Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:55 AM from Paul Nielsen | (Comments Off) Filed under: community, pass, SQLTeach

• PASS Followup, Technical Edition

  I have already given a rundown of most everything PASS here on my personal blog, including a series of posts with pictures too over the days of PASS ) but since this blog is all about things technical with SQL Server, I wanted to just rundown of some Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:03 PM from Louis Davidson | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, pass

• Chance to win tickets to the 2007 PASS summit

  Quest Software/SQL-Server-Performance.com Tip Competition Do you have a great SQL Server tip you would like to share with the community? Quest Software in association with SQL-Server-Performance.com are offering the chance to win tickets to the 2007 PASS Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:39 AM from SSQA.net | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, Microsoft, software, pass, win, quest, team

• Live Meeting - Advanced Tips and Techniques for using SQL Server 2005 Profiler

  Upcoming PASS SIG LiveMeeting - August 22, 2007 @ 12:00 p.m. EDT DBA Special Interest Group presents speaker Brad McGehee Brad will be giving a presentation about SQL Profiler. To read a description of the LiveMeeting, the Biography of Brad McGehee, or Read More... Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 8:21 PM from SSQA.net | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, performance, Microsoft, profiler, webcast, pass, live meeting