Today we’re announcing the call for speakers for pre-conference seminars at the first SQLRally being held in Orlando in May 2011. Please follow this link (login required) to the final guidance. For those of you that read the earlier draft there are only a few changes that matter, all resulting from the great comments […]
Read more "PASS SQLRally Pre-Conference Seminars – The Application Process"The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up, but the minutes of our planning meetings so far are now available thanks to some work from PASS HQ, you can see them at http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally.aspx. I hope you’ll read them. I know minute aren’t page […]
Read more "SQLRally Meeting Minutes"Yesterday I did another presentation via Live Meeting, some thoughts from that effort: Perf VC team did a great job making sure we had everything lined up prior to the event. This may seem like a little thing, but it’s nice to have it pushed to me instead of having to figure it out. Erin […]
Read more "More Notes on Live Meeting Presentations"Here is the slide from the presentation today for the PASS Performance Tuning Virtual Chapter. Thanks to all those that attended! http://www.sqlandy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Introduction-to-Statistics.zip
Read more "Slide Deck for Introduction to Statistics"I’ll be doing a presentation titled Introduction to Statistics in SQL Server today (Sep 7, 2010) at noon for the PASS Virtual Chapter. It’s designed to teach the vocabulary and concepts and open the door to some of the more complex cases that we sometimes hit with statistics. I’ve done this one a few times, […]
Read more "Reminder: Introduction to Statistics Presentation Today at Noon"Voting began yesterday with ballots mailed to qualified members. More information can be found here, including contact info for Hannes at PASS HQ if you think you should have received a ballot and did not. You can find more information about the candidates here, and I encourage you to read that and explore candidate blogs […]
Read more "PASS 2010 Elections Are Open"Hopefully you’ve heard by now that PASS is launching a new event format called SQLRally in May 2011 in Orlando. It will be a two day conference, preceded by one day of seminars. Because it’s a new format, we can – if we choose – build a new process for how we pick these seminars. […]
Read more "SQLRally Pre-Con Selection Process – Draft for Comment"Prior to creating SQLRally the world of PASS consisted of the PASS Summit which is our annual mega-event, the European Summit, SQLSaturday, chapter meetings, and the occasional launch event. With all that going on, did we need another brand? What market void does it fill? And how is it different from our other events? I […]
Read more "Positioning SQLRally in the PASS Event Universe"I’ll be doing an introductory level presentation on statistics for the Performance VC on September 7th, details and the LiveMeeting URL at http://performance.sqlpass.org/). For those of you who have been tuning for a while you’re not likely to learn a lot of new stuff, really focused on those new to the concepts and showing them […]
Read more "Upcoming PASS Performance Virtual Chapter Presentation"Our most recent board meeting was in Nashville on Aug 19, 20. We had originally discussed meeting in Seattle/Redmond/Vancouver, but by the time we scheduled the August meeting a few of us had already committed to attending the SQLSaturday in Nashville, so it just made sense to have it there. I think that worked out […]
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