Wednesday was a blur. I had breakfast at the Convention Center, mostly to see how it was – ok, muffins, cereal, bagels. Good enough to be fair. After the keynote it was networking time, quite a few of the long slow conversations that deliver the most value combined with a lot of hand shaking as […]

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Late posting this, has been a busy week! Started the day at Top Pot, meeting up with Jack Corbett and some other friends. Good way to start the day. Next stop is the SQLSaturday RoundTable meeting, the once a year chance to get most of the event leaders and key volunteers in a room to […]

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Quentin Clark today: Long monologue about the possibilities of data.I’d like to think we all get that already.

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Starting off with Douglas McDowell talking about the opening video that highlighted people from a lot of different countries, lots of diversity. Talking about how much PASS has changed in the past 5 years – I agree with that – and the revenue growth. Summit is primary revenue (just about the only one!) source Says […]

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Ted Kummert speaking. Talking about SQLFamily and the way this event feels like a family reunion (it does) Showing a picture of release date at MS for SQL 2012, wishes we were there (maybe some video next time? Some community people? Shipping software is hard, had to be a good moment) SP1 for SQL 2012 […]

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Ted Kummert speaking. Talking about SQLFamily and the way this event feels like a family reunion (it does) Showing a picture of release date at MS for SQL 2012, wishes we were there (maybe some video next time? Some community people? Shipping software is hard, had to be a good moment) SP1 for SQL 2012 […]

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It’s 8:15 on Wednesday and I’m at the blogger table, hoping for a good to great keynote. First up is Bill Graziano: 3894 attendees at the 14th annual Summit Check web site for PASS TV Asking all the speakers from any PASS event to stand-it’s a long of people Now introducing the current Board of […]

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I started this trip with a 4:30 am wake up on Sunday to be at the airport for the direct but painfully long six and a half hour flight from Orlando to Seattle at 7:30. Ran into Rodney Landrum in line to check my bag for the same flight, talked shop a little as the […]

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