SQLSaturday & PASS – More Details

Yesterday I posted the news that SQLSaturday is now owned by PASS, today I’d like to share a bit of the history behind SQLSaturday and why we thought it made sense for it to transition to PASS. I’ve promised my friend Andy Leonard an “exclusive” interview on some of the details and with luck you’ll […]

PASS Acquires SQLSaturday

I’ll write more about this tomorrow, but for now I’m reposting the release from Rushabh Mehta, President, PASS: It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce that the PASS Board of Directors recently voted to acquire the SQL Saturday Event brand and management. SQL Saturday is a very popular event brand started by Andy Warren, Steve […]

Orlando Code Camp 2010 Announced

The fifth annual Orlando Code Camp will be held March 27, 2010, at the Lake Mary Campus of Seminole State College (formerly Seminole Community College). Registration and call for speakers is now open. I’ll be helping out by making the selections for the SQL track again this year – speakers, there are a small number […]

Find Efficiencies or Add Horsepower?

In our world sometimes it’s worth the time and effort for in depth tuning to get the machine to run at something closer to max efficiency, in other cases it’s just not worth the time or effort or cost, easier to just buy a new or additional server. It’s not easy to know which one […]

SQLSaturday #41 Announced

Stuart Ainsworth will be coordinating the second SQLSaturday in Atlanta, this time on April 24th, 2010. Registration and call for speakers is now open!

Book Review: The Breach

The Breach by Patrick Lee ($8 at Amazon) was a gift, and wasn’t quite what I expected based on the title. Bad guy now good guy Travis Chase is out on a mountain hike to find himself when he finds a recently crashed 747, which poses the obvious question – how do you crash a […]

SQLSaturday #30 Rescheduled

Got the email today, SQLSaturday #30 has been rescheduled for April 10, 2010, due to projected bad weather on the original date this weekend. Andy Leonard and Jessica Moss did a great job of handling this, getting an email out early in the week to warn of a possible change and setting a deadline for […]

SQLSaturday #40 Announced

SQLSaturday #40 will be held July 31st, 2010 in Miramar, FL. This is the second annual SQLSaturday organized by Scott Klein and Herve Roggero. Great area to visit! Call for speakers is open.

SQLSaturday #39 Announced

SQLSaturday #39 will be held April 24, 2010 and is being coordinated by Melissa Demsak and others from the NJ SQL Group. Registration and call for speakers and sponsors is now open!

How to Participate in the SQL Community – Draft #1

I mentioned last year about my plans to write this, and to make it a semi-collaborative effort by incorporating comments back into the finished product (if I like them that is!). I thought I’d start by outlining what I have in mind, and then I’m going to try to post more on this project about […]