Notes on the May 27, 2015 PASS Town Hall

I attended the online Town Hall yesterday, the second one that PASS has held this year. The recording should be available soon (next week) for those that missed it. On to my thoughts: Bravo to PASS for continuing to do this. More communication, more channels, I like the trend. I think it’s tough/distracting to have […]

Presenting To The Orlando .Net Users Group on June 11, 2015

I’ll be returning to ONETUG just less than a year from my last presentation, delivering technical content and evangelizing for SQLSaturday Orlando. My goal on technical content is get them to see SQL Server as a really, really interesting piece of software written by developers and that can do amazing things if you know how […]

Volunteer Strategy for SQLSaturday Orlando

I’ve been busy with other stuff lately and haven’t been able to put much time into this yet, but capturing a few thoughts from the past couple weeks: I want to ask everyone else on the event team for their volunteer needs. Get them thinking of where volunteers can help. Then I need a bunch […]

I'm Speaking at OPASS on May 28, 2015

I’ll be presenting Avoiding, Detecting, and Repairing Database Corruption and probably talking a little bit about career development during the warm up. If you’re in the Orlando area get all the details and register for the meeting at http://orlando.sqlpass.org/.

Still More Notes on the SQLSaturday Web Site–Registration

I’ll start by saying the intent of the notes isn’t to complain, at least too much. I’m looking for opportunities. It looks far nicer than v1/v2, but the functionality shown still tends to be a page per table/entity. I look at the app and think we could easily do 2x as much to engage potential […]

More Notes on the Updated SQLSaturday Web Site

A few things I had sitting in my draft folder: Privacy policy has not updated since May 2009. I’d like to see it updated and make sure it clearly addresses raffle tickets/sharing with sponsors, connection to the local group. I’d like to see SSL everywhere. No reason to not do this Reserving a date for […]

Make Sure You’re Eligible to Vote in the 2015 PASS Election.

Per the post from Bill Graziano, if you want to vote in the 2015 election you have to make sure your PASS profile shows “eligible”. That means you need to login to sqlpass.org. I know you may not remember your password or your user name – spend 5 minutes to figure it out and get […]

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