I started out day three after the keynote by attending Adam Machanic session on Query Tuning.  I must say that I will need to watch this session again once I can stream it.  There was way to much good information being given for me to remember it all and couldn’t… Read more

Day two of sessions only had me attending three sessions.  One of them was 3 hours.  I started out after the keynote attending Klaus’s session on Advanced SQL 2008 troubleshooting.  Klaus had a huge crowd and covered some really good information.  I picked up a couple of new tips to… Read more

The keynote started out with Rob Farley and Buck Woody singing an awesome song about a slow running query.  What a great way to start out the day.  Next Wayne Snider was recognized.  He spoke at his first summit in 1999.  Both Wayne and Rick Heiges are rolling off the… Read more

The keynote started out with Bill Graziano taking to the stage in a kilt and declaring that the second day of the PASS Summit is now officially SQL Kilt day.  Bill asked everyone in a kilt to stand up.  It had to be a record number of men in skirts… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

My first day in Seattle has ended.  My flight arrived around 12:30 and I was in good company with John Lang and Julie Smith on the same flight.  We rode the light rail into the city and got settled in.  Once I was checked in I strolled across the street… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

I decided to start monitoring the amount of free space in my database files so that I can make sure all my databases are set to auto grow by the right amount and to monitor the amount of free space so I can schedule the expansion of the files rather… Read more

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… Read more

I flew into Austin Texas today and got to spend time with a lot of great people.  The journey started in ATL with Thomas LaRock and myself being on the same flight.  When we landed in Austin we were graciously picked up by Amy Muehleman and driven to the hotel… Read more