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| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
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Ken Henderson - SQL Server Support is at the PASS Summit again this year
By drsql@hotmail.com @ 12:30 AM :: 647 Views ::
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My friends in Microsoft’s Product Support Services (PSS) group (aka SQL Server Support) are speaking again this year at the PASS Community Summit. They’re doing some main conference sessions, the PSS Boot camp, and putting on the PSS Service Center again (where attendees can work through hands-on labs designed by PSS that demonstrate how to troubleshoot SQL Server issues). I’d encourage you to make your way to their offerings if you possibly can. They’re always some of the best sessions and content at the conference.
They say the ultimate measure of success with an initiative is whether it survives the departure of the person or people who started it. Since its inception in 2003, I had coordinated the involvement of PSS in the PASS Summit. This year, I turned over the reigns to a group consisting of Todd DeDecker, a Group Manager within SQL Server Support, Bart Duncan, an Escalation Engineer within the support group and a good friend, and Haydn Richardson in SQL Server marketing. I’d long felt that PSS mgmt and the SQL Server marketing folks (who handle the product group’s involvement in other conferences) should work together to handle PSS’ presence at the conference. They had the charter and resources to do so, and I knew they could go to Bart for any questions they might have of a technical nature. Once the initiative progressed from toddlerhood to adolescence, I felt it was ready to survive without my involvement.
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| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
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Pat Wright - Getting Ready For PASS
By drsql@hotmail.com @ 12:28 AM :: 556 Views ::
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Ok So It sucks but I’m still at work at 7:00p.m. MST. Why do Finance departments never tell IT they have plans of upgrades to there Great Plains software? Then again why do IT Departments let Finance control that?
That’s not what this blog is about right now. It’s about getting ready for the best Conference of the year. That’s right it’s time for PASS again. This year I’ve got a very busy schedule. Not to mention I haven’t even looked at the Session schedule yet.
So here’s the perspective from someone who volunteered way too much.
Sunday and Monday are going to be time with my wife. J I can’t wait to see some of the city with just her.
Tuesday is all day Sessions for volunteer’s I don’t even know how I’m going to make it to all of them since I belong to 3 committee’s and they are all having meetings at the same time! Tuesday evening is the opening party and the Sqlservercentral party. Which I’ll probably make some sort of appearance at. After that probably a late night at the bar with some friends!
Wednesday Doing a presentation for Red-Gate at there booth at 11:45 Stop by if you want to hear about Execution plans. Lunch with the mountain men! (You guys rock). Later in the day some Chapter committee information which I’m really looking forward to. Then late that night the Volunteer party. This alone is a good reason to volunteer for PASS last year it rocked and I had a lot of fun. Even if I did leave on the early bus.
Thursday Some good Breakfast sessions for Mvp’s and of course Steve Ballmer’s keynote which I don’t want to miss. Then more pass meetings throughout the day. I hope to get a few sessions in there also. I hope to hit the PSS Service center also for some of there presentations and the hands on labs. Hopefully I’ll have time for this today or Friday. The night will be wrapped up with an MVP party going on.
Friday Nothing scheduled yet besides sessions. Finally a full day to take in the classes and see what is being presented. Since I haven’t looked at the session schedule yet I guess I don’t know what I’m going to yet but I plan on mapping some things out tomorrow so maybe I’ll update the blog then.
Oh and I’ll be doing interviews and podcasts throughout the conference. Look for the really big guy in the Fedora! Stop by and I’ll interview you.
Last year I promised that I would post messages from PASS and sessions. I hold no promises this year since I plan to spend most of my nights interviewing or drinking with friends.
Hope to see you there!
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| Friday, October 07, 2005 |
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Rushabh Mehta - PASS 2005 Community Summit coverage by Universal Thread
By rushabh72 @ 12:00 AM :: 692 Views ::
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PASS 2005 Summit in Grapevine was a great success. It was the largest SQL Server summit to date. The conference was covered by the community site Universal Thread. The final report includes the recap of day 3, a video of several interviews with key speakers, a list of blog of each speaker which have been interviewed and more then 100 pictures. Thanks to Daniel LeClair, Dave Bernard and Jean-René Roy who coordinated their effort to deliver another excellent report.
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| Saturday, October 01, 2005 |
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| Saturday, October 01, 2005 |
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Tara Duggan - PASS 2005: My Experience
By drsql@hotmail.com @ 10:08 AM :: 1489 Views ::
0 Comments :: PASS Member, PASS Summit Attendee 2005, Summit 2005
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Wow, what a great experience!
Everyone here has been so friendly. It was nice to put faces to names even for people I didn't actually meet. I hope that I can attend another PASS conference some time in the near future and perhaps finally meet up with Nigel Rivett (I never did find him).
The only negative that I have about the conference is that some of the sessions weren't advanced enough even though I attended the ones in the 400 Series. Overall though, it was truly an amazing event. I certainly would recommend it to anyone who wants to go to a SQL Server conference.
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| Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
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Rushabh Mehta - Welcome Christoph Stotz
By rushabh72 @ 11:05 AM :: 1262 Views ::
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Christoph Stotz has been appointed to the board as a Director at Large to take the seat that was vacated by Kurt Allebach. Christoph has been actively involved with PASS and has been a major driving force for PASS growth in EMEA, especially in Germany. He was also a great support for the Munich conference earlier this year and lately has been working very hard to put together a 3 day BI boot camp in Düsseldorf.
Having had the pleasure of working with him previously, I as well as the rest of the board is really excited to have him and his perspective and experience on the board. If you have a chance to meet him at the summit, please congratulate him and thank him for his hard work and passion for PASS.
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| Monday, September 26, 2005 |
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Jamie Thomson - PASS Day 1
By drsql@hotmail.com @ 8:15 PM :: 1207 Views ::
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We're here! Only a 10-hour flight but Jon, Christian and myself touched down at Dallas Fort Worth almost on time, to baking hot sunshine and stifling humidity! Well I shouldn't complain it beats the cold of Aberdeen which is where I've been the last 2 weeks!
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I've spent the first day of the actual conference at Bob Beauchemin's "New features in SQL Server 2005 for developers" course. What Bob doesn't know about SQL Server frankly isn't worth knowing. He knows his stuff and, more importantly, he knows how to get it across. So its been a great day!
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| Sunday, September 25, 2005 |
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| Monday, September 19, 2005 |
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| Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
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Joe Webb - Where to stay in Grapevine?
By joew@webbtechsolutions.com @ 12:00 AM :: 1135 Views ::
0 Comments :: PASS Member, PASS Summit Attendee 2005, Volunteer, Summit 2005, Summit Speaker 2005
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As many of you already know, this year's PASS Community Summit is
shaping up to be the biggest, and hopefully the best, ever! We're
really excited about...well everything; lots of great opportunities for
networking and education.
A few weeks back, the Gaylord Texan sold out of rooms for the week of
the event. So if you haven't already made your travel arrangements,
you're going to have to stay off-site.
To help out, we've contracted with a couple of other hotels in the
area, the Hyatt DFW and the Grand Hyatt. (The Hyatt DFW has already
sold out, too, by the way). Both are approximately 5 miles from the
Gaylord Texan, but we're going to run shuttles back and forth
throughout the day to help with the transportation needs. If you're
staying in one of those hotels, check the lobby of the hotel for more
details.
As always, if you have any other needs, check with the PASS Headquarters, http://www.sqlpass.org.
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