SQLAndy

The End of PASS

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

I think our profession was the better for having a professional association, even if it never quite did as much as I wanted it to. I put a lot...

2021-01-16

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Platforms for Events

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

in my last post I wrote about thinking of the tools as being a separate thing from the event. Not a complicated concept, but does it matter? Maybe. Let...

2021-01-28 (first published: 2021-01-16)

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SQLSaturday Doesn’t Have to Be a Platform

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

When we built the first SQLSaturday it was about 2 pages of HTML. No login, no tools, just get it done. Worked ok. Didn’t work so well for the...

2021-01-21 (first published: 2021-01-14)

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Farewell, Gareth Swanepoel

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

Not easy to say, Gareth passed away a few days ago. We’d both gotten busy and with Covid added in, we had not caught up in a while. Now,...

2021-01-14

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Filing the Annual Tax Return for SQLOrlando

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

Similar to my earlier post on filing the annual report, once a year we have to file a tax return with the IRS. Basically if the revenue is less...

2021-01-10

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Annual Corporate Report Filing for SQLOrlando

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

As a Florida corporation we have to file an annual report. Sounds complicated, but for us it’s a five minute task. Here’s the Trello card for the work I...

2021-01-10

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Splitting up the Mission of PASS

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

Following up on Should There Be A Successor to PASS? I have a couple more thoughts. One of the many complaints about PASS over the years was about perceived value....

2021-01-04 (first published: 2020-12-28)

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Should There Be A Successor to PASS?

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

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

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

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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Some Post-PASS Thoughts on Local User Groups

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

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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