Does The Job Matter To You?

Last week I wrote an editorial for SQLServerCentral titled Does The Job Matter To You?, asking how much the type of work mattered – what if you could do something you really wanted to and make the same money? As usual the comments (90 or so as I write this) are far more interesting than […]

PASS Update #33 (SQLSaturday Transfer)

I’ve just finished handing over the source code for all the SQLSaturday related items after finishing up a couple minor bugs in the admin tools. Along with the just completed transfer of the domain, that finishes up all the tasks we had identified to get the hand off done. The next task is to get […]

PASS Update #32 (Spring Event & May 2010 Minutes)

If you download the May 2010 minutes of the Board meeting (login required) you’ll see that we devoted an entire meeting to trying to figure out the format of the ‘spring event’. For those of you just joining in the background on that is that we were already lightly discussing doing a new event in […]

Preparing for SQLSaturday #49

We’re still in the early stages so the pace is comfortably slow. We’ve got about 30 sessions in already (plenty of room for more), a few people interested in submitting an abstract for our $99 pre-con, and Jack Corbett toiling away on sponsors and marketing. That gives me time to focus on logistics more. I’m […]

Unofficial Poll on 2010 PASS Summit Keynote Speaker

I’ve blogged on this before, here and here, and ended up chatting about it on Twitter (see, I do use it sometimes) and Adam Machanic asked about a poll to gauge the interest, so I’ve launched one at http://twtpoll.com/3x3fq4. Hope you’ll vote! Don’t know if we can afford one, find one, agree on one – […]

oPASS June 2010 Meeting Date Change

Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month, but in June we’re going to have to push the meeting to June 15th due to our own perfect storm of events. Jack Corbett was already schedule to be out of town that week, and then I totally goofed and decided to attend TechEd, leaving […]

Vote for The Keynote by Dr. DeWitt

You can choose from how query optimization works and why it’s so hard, or how relational engines and MapReduce can work together. Expect that neither will be about writing select queries! http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/na2010/Voteforthe2010DavidDeWittKeynoteTopic.aspx He’s a great speaker, and I’m pleased he is returning this year. That said, I’m still campaigning for Jeremy Clarkson to do one […]

Reporting on TechEd

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 […]

LiveMeeting is Still Harder Than Live Meetings!

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 […]

Upgrading to SQL 2008 R2

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 […]

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