Some Post-PASS Thoughts on Local User Groups
For all the groups the most immediate need is to rescue what they can of the mailing list stored at PASS.org and to have a new landing page and/or...
2020-12-29 (first published: 2020-12-20)
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Andy Warren
Should There Be A Successor to PASS?
PASS was a big influence on a lot of us and did a lot of good, if never quite as much good as many of us wished. I wish...
2020-12-26
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The 2021 Plan for SQLOrlando
Over the past couple years we’ve been slowly evolving from a fairly adhoc plan of doing what we did last year to a semi structured plan that was mainly...
2020-12-20
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A Note to the PASS Board of Directors
I just read with dismay that Mindy Curnutt has resigned. That’s a big loss at a time when the future of PASS is in doubt and we need all...
2020-12-06
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The Future of PASS
2020 has been a tough year for PASS. It’s primary fund raiser – the PASS Summit – was converted to a virtual event that attracted fewer attendees and far...
2020-12-04 (first published: 2020-11-21)
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Requesting Comments on the SQLOrlando Operations Manual
For the past couple weeks I’ve been trying to capture a lot of ideas about how and what and why we do things in Orlando and put them into...
2020-12-02
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Serious Thoughts About PASS
Back when Covid started I guessed that this might be yet another live-or-die challenge for PASS. PASS is heavily dependent on Summit revenue and uses it to fund all...
2020-11-23 (first published: 2020-11-12)
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Notes on the PASS 2020 Virtual Summit – Conclusions
I waited a week to write this, letting the experience settle some. Looking back, it wasn’t a terrible experience. Content was findable and as far as I could tell...
2020-11-21
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Notes on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit – Part 6
Mostly Friday notes here. This morning I was the moderator for Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps by Steve Jones. The way the Summit worked this year...
2020-11-14
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Notes on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit – Part 4
Last night (Tuesday) was the main reception and then “networking bubbles”. The reception consisted of DJ Leanne playing assorted music (and seeming to have a good time doing so)...
2020-11-13
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Blogs
Daily Coping 21 Sep 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert.
In my last post I talked about invoke-sqlcmd. It’s a nice easy way to...
Lambda Architecture in data systems and possible meaning of this name
By Rayis Imayev
(2021-Sep-21) There is one scene in "The Core" movie that I really like when two geophysicists...
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