Feedback and Change
Today Steve asks you to be a part of the change you'd like to see in our professional organization.
2019-10-10
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pass
Changes to the PASS Bylaws
If you haven’t read the proposed changes yet you should do that first and form your own opinion before reading mine. Thoughts here are high level, not a line...
The...
2019-05-10
Your Professional Development and the PASS Organization
There are so many ways of keeping your technical skills and knowledge up-to-date. There are books, articles, conferences, video courses and so on, but nothing beats discussion and debate with professional people in other organisations facing a similar range of technical challenges, some of which you share, and others you maybe haven't yet. PASS is unique in providing just this vital ingredient for database professionals using the Microsoft Data Stack.
2016-12-12
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You Can Still Vote for PASS
If you couldn't vote last week or didn't get a ballot, you still can. Please go to www.sqlpass.org and learn more.
2014-10-03 (first published: 2014-09-29)
504 reads
#SQLPASS Election Interview with James Rowland-Jones
An interview with James Rowland-Jones in advance of the PASS election.
2014-09-26
6,152 reads
David McCandless Keynoting at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2014
Bringing together business analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence and IT pros, the PASS BA Conference will feature 65+ best-practices, how-to, and strategy sessions by top BA/BI experts. Keynoting this year is Information Is Beautiful author David McCandless.
2014-03-31
352 reads
Free Online Business Analytics Training for Those Who Love Data
Spend a day with top experts from the world of business analytics and business intelligence on Feb. 5 and learn how to get the most from your data in a series of 12 free, live training webcasts with on-demand replay.
2014-01-21
2,905 reads
Red Gate to respond instantly to user requests at SQL in the City Charlotte and PASS 2013
Red Gate is shipping new features and fixes this week, based on requests from attendees at SQL in the City Charlotte and PASS Summit 2013.
2013-10-11
729 reads
Accounting for Windows Azure
On Thursday March 21st 12PM noon Central, Steve Hughes will discuss Accounting for Windows Azure when looking at Data Architecture.
2013-03-19
2,692 reads
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Mike Fal on Eating the Elephant: SQL Server Table Partitioning
On Thursday May 17th 12PM noon Central, Mike Fal will discuss "SQL Server's table partitioning gives the DBA tools to manage this beast and support very large tables in a way where index management and data retrieval..."
2012-05-15
2,124 reads
Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
Forums
SQL Server Vector Support II
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Troubleshooting Slow Queries That Already Have an Index
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