Reminder – SQLSaturday #38 in Jacksonville on May 8th, 2010

I hear that registration is over 350 so far, with seats still available – but register soon! I’m driving up with the family on Friday the 7th, looking forward to a great event and some family time too. Register at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/38/register.aspx.

Pride of Idea Ownership

I’ve had this on my list to write about for a while, just didn’t have a great example until this week. It took me a while to learn, but a key lesson for me is that I’ve never had an idea that wasn’t made better by involving other people that wanted to make the idea […]

My Idea for the PASS Summit 2010 Opening Night Reception

First, some background. If you’ve been to the Summit you know that we have an opening night reception, lots of buffet food, some years even a free drink or two. It’s part networking, part party, which in my view don’t always go well together, but usually the room is big enough that the networkers can […]

Visiting Chicago

A few weeks back I was in Chicago for three days for work. I’ve been through the airport a couple times, never spent any time at all in the city. It was a good trip, and I think would be a great destination for the PASS Summit. I flew into Midway Airport and it’s all […]

Schedule Published for SQLSaturday #38 in Jacksonville

SQLSaturday #38 is coming up on May 8th, 2010, back at the same location as in previous years at the University of North Florida campus. The schedule was just published, 36 one hour sessions across 6 tracks – looks good! I’m presenting one session this time, hope to see you there!

LinkedIn for Blackberry

I’ve been waiting on this for a while, and missed the announcement that it was available, happened to see that Paul Waters had tried it via the weekly digest I get from LinkedIn. It runs on Tour, Curve, and Bold (my current phone). Installed easily enough, and the UI looks a like like a browser. […]

Notes from the April 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting

Decided to scrap the pizza this month after one too many late deliveries from Pizza Hut, went with sandwich platters from Publix. Ordered 2 platters, got a couple bags of chips, and some packages of Oreo’s for about the same cost as 10 pizzas. We started a bit late with much lower than average attendance, […]

SQLSaturday #47 Coming to Phoenix!

Just set up SQLSaturday #47 in Phoenix for July 17, 2010 at Devry. Call for speakers is open, good to see some events happening out west!

Announcing SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh

SQLSaturday #46 will be held in Raleigh, NC on September 18, 2010, under the direction of Brett Tomson and team – go Brett! Call for speakers is open.

oPASS April 2010 Meeting is Tonight

Our next meeting is today, April 9, 2010, from 6-8 pm. Our featured speaker is Joe Webb and he’ll be doing a presentation on Data Driven Subscriptions in Reporting Services. Hope you’ll attend if you’re in the area, and if not, join in via Livemeeting using this link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=8RHDGJ&role=attend.