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Folks,
There are many outlet s to get information on this year’s SQL PASS board of directors candidates. Including :
SQLPASS Election Site at elections2011.sqlpass.org
You will find candidate profiles here, forums where the candidates are answering questions and fostering discussion as well as the timelines for the election and… Read more
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a blog from the team doing the building and development. Some cool things I liked included: - building task manager to support 160 logical processors - updating live tiles without… Read more
Hey folks, Welcome back to the PASS election process. The process moves forward with all of us candidates awaiting our ranking from the nomination committee. The interview specifics are not published from the nomination committee but as usually Andy Leonard has given written interviews to all the board members… Read more
I recently had a great opportunity to present a preconference all day event in Tampa with the crew from the Tampa BI and SQL User Groups for SQL Saturday BI Edition in Tampa. We had a great time and covered some in depth SSAS, Power Pivot, Reporting Services, and Performance… Read more
So last year in improved transparency move, the board and the nomination committee began posting the questions the noncom asked each individual running for the SQLPASS BOD. Then the questions and scores were published so the community could review them to help them make an informed decision for voting. Things… Read more
Wow, what an event. I had to run to Redmond right after this so I am sorry this post is getting out late, but I had to get it out! We had such a great time! Pragmatic Works had so many of our team at this event, it felt like… Read more
The other day, someone said to me ?You guys are growing like a weed? Now it was a competitor, so I?m assuming he meant the type of weed that will eventually choke them out and absorb the best of them and process the rest, but the metaphor was not… Read more
Many of you know recently the PASS board announced that elections will be coming up for three seats on the board for the upcoming term. I believe that the board has come a long way thanks to the efforts of some key individuals. Even so, I believe we have more… Read more
Quick update for all of you! Hey there everyone! We are going to have some awesome surprises, new software features and the hottest nerds at the event in our booth at PASS! Make sure to stop by and check us out. Come say hi, get a hug, see an awesome… Read more
So I am really close to Atlanta geographically, but I?m never there. I?m going to change that after this SQL Saturday. I flew in the morning of, broke several well intentioned speed laws on my way to the event and got there in time to help our sales Engineer Brad… Read more
Weekday Lunch RAW! Welcome to the Smack-down ladies and gentleman. I couldn?t believe it when Brian walked into my office the other day and threw down this challenge. He actually thinks he can use one of his tired old webinar topics and get more attendees to show up for his… Read more
That title may evoke thoughts of inappropriate SQL Karaoke or perhaps not but It is so nice to know I’m loved (or at least you like my sessions) I would not have believed this based on the caliber of folks at that event except I saw this In my email… Read more
Well today was the last day for a while I would be greeted by this sign:
It was a pretty exciting week. Taking over a 500 level program and pulling it together from existing materials in a short time is a daunting task. I was SO lucky and glad to… Read more
Wow, what a day 2! This was our first day of lecture and it was a doozy. Stacia and I worked our way through advanced dimension concepts, partitioning and storage internals, processing tuning and EVEN ROLAP! Yes ROLAP! The class was great an asked so many good questions we got… Read more
Well it’s been an exciting couple of weeks leading up to this course. We have tweaked what we could in the short time between getting all the feedback from the previous course and this new one. I’m excited to be presenting with Stacia Misner and looking forward to all the… Read more
One of the things I’m most proud of at our company is our team.You can see some of our team below taking down our booth at PASS this year.
I get asked a lot of the same questions so I thought it was time for some Pragmatic Mythbusters to dispel… Read more
This next week I’m launching a series of posts centered around how you could be a part of the leading team in Microsoft BI. Make sure to stay tuned for some really cool information about how we engage, what we’re proud of, and why we think your best move would… Read more
And a bunch of other people who are really talented. My Zero to Cube session won the Summit Spotlight track for the BI sessions at the upcoming SQL Rally. This means we get to debunk the myth that you have to be a Genius to use Analysis Services. How you… Read more
Ok so dynasty might be a bit strong, but check out this
newest volume from the folks @ Pragmatic Works. We put all our sharePoint
expeirnece to work to help get you up the learning curve quickly. So hurry and
preorder at amazon.com. I co-authored this book with Devin Knight,… Read more
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