The PASS Executive Committee
I was just reading The PASS Board Guidance Policy . Overall a reasonable document and absolutely worth reading if you’re thinking about...
2017-03-22
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SQLAndy
Thinking about Chapters (aka Groups)
I think it was 2003 or 2004 when someone from PASS came to Orlando and helped start what became OPASS....
2017-03-11
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The Ebb & Flow of Community Participation
It’s an interesting moment when you discover the SQL community (or any other I suppose). It’s the moment of finding the...
2017-03-05
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Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
How often is cost the deciding factor in the case of Windows vs Linux? And what if cost wasn’t a...
2017-02-07
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Worth Reading – Something I learned while unemployed by Rod Falanga
SQLServerCentral recently published Something I learned while unemployed. Written by Rod Falanga, it has lessons worth learning about making time to...
2017-01-28
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Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting
This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...
2017-01-23
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Joint OPASS/MagicPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (January 18, 2017)
Grant Fritchey will be presenting Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone and Denny Cherry is presenting Optimizing SQL Server Performance in...
2017-01-17
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Should We Allow Paid Sponsor Presentations at PASS Summit?
For many years the PASS Summit program committee has enforced a bright line rule – no sponsor content in the educational...
2017-01-09
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Moving to WordPress.com
For years I’ve hosted WordPress somewhere, most recently in Azure using Project Nami so that I could store all the...
2017-01-08
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Reflecting on Ten Years of SQLSaturday
It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 10 years since we started the planning for the first event in...
2016-12-16 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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Blogs
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
Back at Small Data SF in 2025
By Steve Jones
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the...
Forums
Large posts full of code not allowed anymore?
Several times now, I've seen a post asking for a solution. I've replied, and...
Data > Hype
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Create and Read the Analysis Services Flight Recorder
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Question of the Day
Slipstream parameters
What parameters are needed to enable a slipstream installation for setup.exe (SQL Server setup)?
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