Reminder & Invitation–Networking Dinner Tonight

If you’re in Seattle for the PASS Summit and would like a chance to meet some new people in a relaxed and informal setting good for conversation join us tonight at Gordon Biersch (note, new location this year!) from 6-9 pm. It’s just a couple blocks from the Convention Center. We’ll greet you at the […]

PASS Summit 2012-Part 1

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 […]

Protected: SQLSaturday #192 in Tampa–March 2013

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Marking Up Books

I like reading and while I read more on an e-reader than I used to, I still prefer the printed kind and with that comes some old fashioned thoughts about how books are treated. I’m on the flight to Seattle as I write this and I glanced across the aisle to see a man circling […]

Debugging Isn’t an Obvious or Easy Skill

I tend to take it for granted and I imagine most of you do as well, but not everyone is good at debugging and/or troubleshooting. I was reminded of this – again – recently when I had some issues with my truck. It started with the ‘check engine’ light coming on. I didn’t see any […]

More Thoughts on the Mac Air

I’ve been living with my Mac Air for a few weeks now, thought I’d share some quick thoughts: I miss the backspace key/behavior. Air only has the delete key. I miss the right click button. And I miss the home/end keys. Two finger scrolling is natural, I find myself trying to do it on the […]

PASS Election Results Posted

Congratulations to Wendy Pastrick, James Rowland-Jones, and Sri Sridharan on winning a two year term on the PASS Board of Directors. It was an amazingly close race, read the full results here. The remaining two candidates, Allen Kinsel and Kendal Van Dyke, will be leaving the Board at the end of this year. I hope […]

Another Strange MS Access Gotcha

This past week I needed to retrieve a spreadsheet from a Sharepoint library, add a column to a sheet, and then populate that column based on some data I had in Access. Rather than import the data into Access to make the change and then export back (which could overwrite any formulas, lose comments, etc), […]

How Do We Get More People To Attend Free Events?

Look around your office, how many of your colleagues have attended any training in the past year? How many have been to a user group meeting, SQLSaturday, Code Camp, Give Camp, or IT Pro Camp? If that number is low, you’re not alone. Why is that? Part of it there are a lot of people […]

Reminder to Register for the Monday Night Networking Party

We just crossed the 100 mark for registrants for our Monday Night Networking Party and still room for more. If you’re in going to be in Seattle Monday why not have a low key dinner with some new people that enjoy SQL as much as you do? Hope to see you there!