Last week I blogged about attending TechEd 2010 on a press pass, and since then I’ve been trying to come up with a strategy for the event. Here’s what I have so far to write about: Details of local travel. Airport, train/bus/taxi system, costs. Good to have for ‘next’ time. Keynotes. This is usually when […]
Read more "Reporting on TechEd"I struggled with the title for this one. One of the thoughts I had was that I believe in being a man of my word. If I can say I’m going to do something, I most likely will, and if I shake hands on it, for me that’s as binding as any contract I’ll ever […]
Read more "Rules to Live By: Be Worthy of Trust"On Thursday I presented ‘Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan’ to the PASS Professional Development Chapter (#PASSProfDev on Twitter) via LiveMeeting. It was my first time giving it to a real audience, rehearsed several times trying to get the pace and content reasonably set – first time presentations always hard, trying to get the right […]
Read more "LiveMeeting is Still Harder Than Live Meetings!"A friend is moving into a leadership role for the first time and we talked some about making that transition. Here’s a guy with tons of skills and life experience, taking on a new challenge and totally out of his comfort zone, what advice to offer? Here’s my try at it. There are a lot […]
Read more "Thoughts on Leadership"Had this on my list todo list, upgrade my laptop that just had plain old SQL 2008 on it. The first part of the install went smooth until it got to the rule checks and then an error related to : Luckily I wasn’t the first person to get the Sql2005SsmsExpressFacet error. The first search […]
Read more "Upgrading to SQL 2008 R2"It’s been a couple years since I’ve attended and always found Teched to be a great event, more content than you can possibly consume and first class treatment (or as close as you can get with 10k or so attendees). Didn’t plan to go this year as I’ve been trying to cut back on travel, […]
Read more "Attending TechEd 2010"This was a phone meeting on April 8th, 2010, that covered: Possibility of an online track at the 2010 PASS Summit Discussion of changes to by-laws (term limits and others) Possible formats of Spring 2011 event (East coast) You can read the full minutes here (login required): http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=WPcw5oAuEA0%3d&tabid=118 We have a meeting on May 13th […]
Read more "Minutes of the April 2010 PASS Board Meeting Published"Strangely we’ve had the March minutes up for many weeks, but just now getting the February minutes posted. This was the meeting where we discussed the 2011 Summit location. There was a second meeting in February that covered SQLSaturday and adding additional staff. http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=BDY8b_A7AD4%3d&tabid=118 http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=saMkY5RvGrk%3d&tabid=118 I urge you to read them – be a good […]
Read more "Minutes of the February 2010 Board Meeting Posted"We moved to Thursday this month to line things up so that Dean Richards from Confio could do a presentation to our group and then head to Jacksonville for SQLSaturday #38. Attendance was good, about 30, for the presentation on wait state analysis. Jack started the meeting off with the standard intro discussion and as […]
Read more "Notes from the May 6th, 2010 oPASS Meeting"Now that we’ve moved SQLSaturday to PASS and we’re seeing some really nice growth in the number of events, I think it makes sense to gather all the thinkers, doers, and dreamers that got us this far and figure out where to go next. With that in mind, I’ve asked for space to seat 100 […]
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