One of the many things we’re discussing going into the 2014 PASS election is what the planned two official campaign events should be. I asked on Twitter yesterday and got some good comments, still looking for more. Last year was (I think) the first year PASS hosted live events, one in a town hall format […]
Read more "A Question From The NomCom"How do you get the boss to pay for training? In my experience you have to: Ask. The boss isn’t sitting around thinking of ways to make your life better Align. Ask for training that is relevant, or show how it is relevant if not obvious Persist. Even if you do a nice clean ask, […]
Read more "How To Get The Boss To Pay For Training"Just the chart today. We’re considerably ahead of previous year registrations for the same number of weeks out. I’m looking at that number every day now!
Read more "Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 25"We’re at 180 registered so far and we haven’t published the schedule yet! So far so good. We’re on track to have the schedule live at 60 days out, maybe a little bit sooner. For those not attending you don’t get to see our marketing messages, so I’m including screenshots of the last two (one […]
Read more "Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 24"I was doing some work on the marketing for SQLSaturday Orlando and looked back at the messages we sent last year, and in one those messages I found this under the heading of “Invite a Friend”: “New to SQL Server? Not new, but never been to one of these events and wondering what it will […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando–A Message From Last Year Revisited"I wrote What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server? not really knowing what answer to expect. So far no one topic has risen to the top of the list in the discussion. What about you, have you found some part of SQL really hard to learn?
Read more "SSC Editorial: What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server?"Contrary to the title (by design), Access Disdain is about not automatically hating Access (or it’s users). Clearly Access has limitations, but so do most apps that we give to “average” users and the more industrious ones build stuff because that’s the tool they have (when all you have is a hammer….). I’ve never minded […]
Read more "SSC Editorial: Access Disdain"Most SQLSaturday’s do ok when it comes to finding speakers, the results of an incredible speaker mailing list and a lot of reasons for speakers to participate – I’d say a combination of a chance to learn in addition to presenting, the chance to spend time with other speakers, and the sheer fun of going […]
Read more "SQL Speakers–Will You Accept The Chapter Challenge?"I did an online presentation about PCI and Credit Card Security for BSSUG last night and it went pretty well, with one minor pain point – at very points in the presentation I was hearing myself on about a 1 second (or it seemed) delay. I was using my phone and a Bluetooth headset and […]
Read more "Presentation to the Baltimore SQL Group on July 15, 2014"Here’s the latest update on our registrations. We’re still ahead of all our previous events, that’s good, and we’re 2 weeks (or less) from announcing our schedule and I expect that to mark the beginning of the standard spike upward. Looking at this I realize that I don’t know what caused the nice bump at […]
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