Maciej Pilecki Speaking at Space Coast UG on July 14, 2011

Just got an email from the Space Coast User Group that Maciej Pilecki (@DrHouseOfSQL) will be doing a presentation to the group on July 14th. Great for a chapter to get a well known speaker.

PASS Update #59 (Run for the Board)

If it hasn’t happened already we should be close to beginning the election cycle for the 2012 election. Last year we had rough election and we’ve made some changes since then. In particular because we had a rough election last year we need a good pool of candidates this year. We need people that care, […]

SQLSaturday #85-Call for Pre-Con Speakers

We’re going to be hosting two pre-conference seminars this year in Orlando on Friday, September 23rd, and we’re looking for speakers! All the details about eligibility and money are posted on the front page of the event site. It’s not huge money, but it’s guaranteed travel expenses and more importantly, it’s experience. Experience you need […]

ODBC DSN on 32/64 Bit Systems

Funny how you can work with data a long time and still run into something new. I’ve been working on an upgrade for a third party application with a few moving pieces – you know how that goes. One of the pieces is a batch processor and we struggled to get it running, and finally […]

Google Correlate

My friend Rob Hatton pointed me to Google Correlate, a new service that lets you explore data trends in a few different ways. The theory is that the history of searches should expose both some interesting trends and correlations, often faster than than the way ‘official’ approaches work. On a lark I typed in SQLSaturday. […]

Attention Speakers–Sign Up for SQLSaturday #85 in Orlando!

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PASS Update #58 (Elections)

Last year we had some problems with our annual election, enough problems that clearly we needed to do a deeper look at our ‘process’ to see what was working and what wasn’t. We ended up fielding an Election Review Committee (ERC) that had it’s first meeting at the Summit last year and continued meeting by […]

Indexes Aren’t Always the Answer

There’s a tendency to think all problems can be solved with an index or two (or partitions, or other performance trick of your choice), but sometimes the answer is to not do the work to start with. Sounds Zen, but it’s often a matter of caching in the write place. It’s a technique I’ve used […]

PASS Update #57-Board Benefits, Travel, and Meetings

From time to time I get asked about how PASS Board members are compensated, so I thought it would make a good blog post, and I want to add to that some notes related to travel and meetings. Board members are not paid a salary, stipend, or honorarium. We get free admittance to the PASS […]

PASS Update #56-SQLRally 2012 Site Selection

Note: This is a good, bad, and ugly post. We took some chances, got some things right, got more than a few wrong. In the end we launched SQLRally, had a good event in 2011, and have one coming to Dallas in 2012. Way back in July 2010 as we started on the SQLRally […]

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