Well, it has been a couple of weeks since my last blog post and over a month since Maintaining Security and Performance Using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS was posted, although I did spend time working on the originally unplanned follow up to that post when I…

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I’ve already written four posts (1, 2, 3, 4) that discussed what I did at the Summit, including what I learned, now I want to discuss my thoughts on the event.

This being my first PASS Summit, I really wasn’t sure what to expect.  I… Read more

After the first 2 official days of the Summit the brain is already on overload and then the second part of the keynote by Dr. Dewitt and 45 minutes of Itzik Ben-Gan’s tips and tricks totally fried my brain.

I arrived and sat with Bob Hovious with the plan to… Read more

I actually slept in on Wednesday until 6am.  This was a change from being wide awake at 4am.  I made my way over to the convention center and was roped into invited to an informal meeting of bloggers with Andy Warren (@sqlandy) and a member of the PASS marketing team. … Read more

Finally time for the sessions to begin after a day and a half in Seattle being overwhelmed by the people that I’ve had the opportunity to meet.

I started the day meeting with Mike Walsh (@mike_walsh) and Joe Webb (@joewebb) in the Sheraton living area (lobby)… Read more

Getting to Seattle

I started my travels to the PASS Summit at about 9:30 am (EST) on Sunday and arrived at the Sheraton in Seattle at about 6:30 pm (PST) Sunday.  It was an uneventful trip on Southwest from Orlando to Albuquerque, then on to Seattle.  On the second leg… Read more

This is a follow up to Maintaining Security and Performance using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS because of a comment on that post on the SQLServerCentral syndicated feed by Ken Lee.  He commented:

Like the technique, not the example. ISNULL() is a function, it forces the where…

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