SQL PASS Summit 2010 In Review

This week was the 2010 SQL PASS summit in Seattle.  I would have to say that this was the best PASS summit that I have attended (this was my fourth).  There were more exhibitors that ever before, there were more attendees than we’ve had in a very long time, and I think that lots more […]

SQL PASS 2010 Day 3 Keynote

Today’s keynote started with Rick giving us some important news.  He first announced that the SQL Rally website has gone online for the first SQL Rally event as well as the first SQL Rally pre-con speakers.  The date and location of the next SQL PASS summit has also been announced as October 10th-14th. After Rick […]

SQL PASS 2010 Day 2 Keynote

Today was the second day of the SQL PASS summit. The first item of business was to award The passion award to Wendy Pastrick (blog | twitter) . After the awesome award was given out by Bill Graziano, Bill talked about the budget stuff. Bill also promised to wear a kilt on Wednesday of next […]

SQL PASS 2011 Day 1 Keynote

Today was the first day of the SQL PASS summit. Starting the day with the keynote where a Laptop was given away to a member of the audience by Mark Souza (Twitter) the founder of the SQL CAT team. Ted Kummert was our keynote speaker for this mornings keynotes.  Before Ted come onstage there was […]

SQL PASS 2010 Day 0

Yesterday was my first day at the SQL PASS summit.  Normally I don’t have anything official to do on that day, however this year was different.  This year I was allow to present a pre-con at the summit.  The pre-con was a heck of a lot of work to put together, but it was a […]

Dev Connections was a blast

This week was my first dev connections conference.  The conference was a bit bigger than I thought it would be, and I had a blast.  The couple of sessions that I went to where excellent, but I wouldn’t expect much else from Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter), Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter), and Buck Woody […]