Category: SQLServerPedia Syndication

Today was our first day to attend regular sessions.  With over 189 sessions being offered over 3 days there are lots to choose from.  A common theme among the sessions are Azure, Cloud, Denali.  I personally would have liked to see more sessions on currently available products and main stream items but I understand the […]

The second day of the Summit was full of even more pre-con’s.  Word on the street last night is that the PASS Summit 2011 had a record number of attendees to the pre-con’s as well as to the Summit in general.  I heard that Adam Machanic had around 240 people in his pre-con.  Sounds like […]

Last year we set out some very high goals.  1 million technical training hours, 250k members in the community, and 5 global regions.  In 1 year our community has provided 430k hours of training, added 20k members to bring us up to 80k, and created a new global region.  There is a reason why the […]

Watching the twitter sphere it is apparent that many of the SQL Nation are in route to Seattle WA today.  Those would be a lot of the organizers, volunteers, and those speaking or attending a Monday pre-con.  I will be leaving Monday morning to start my journey.  I am very excited to be attending my […]

Last year at the Summit I missed out on this really cool concept.  Donate your unused items from your hotel.  You know the little bars of soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc.  There are several places setup at the Summit where you can drop off these items to be donated to a local charity. Want to take […]

Well it isn’t quite over for me just yet, I still have a flight home tomorrow and can’t wait to get home and hug my wife and kiddo’s. I have to commend Wes and his crew for pulling off a great event.  The location was great and not to difficult to find, the rooms were […]

I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts.  Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts which look great with a pair of slacks.  Today I work my speaker shirt from SQL Saturday #81 (Birmingham AL).  I was shopping this evening at a local supermarket when a young guy came up […]