I wonder what percentage of people find conferences a means to really establish friendships with people, as you describe Steve.  I have been to a handful of SQL Saturdays...

I never really went to conferences while working, but over the years had both regular and rare social situations with co-workers.  The most pleasant ones were when we...

Good basics, though what about scheduling classes multiple times?

I need to change the author. It defaults to me, and I rarely add articles for others, so I always forget.

Most SQL Saturdays use sessionize, in fact, most conferences do. PASS Summit used it last year (2022), but not this year. I think because the platform they use already has...

This is a good article, but I've got a question or two for clarification. The first involves the release notes and feature changes that hackers use to devise ways...

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Inadequately secured cloud tech may be at the forefront of people's minds but how secure is the ancient stuff quietly running the world.  What damage could a motivated, hostile...

You can use an older ADW db, as I show here:

 

However, needs to be in 2022 compat mode

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Bonus points for style.

Also with some "why" this is a good or bad design. A debate.

 

I like the above design for the people entities, but not sure about the scheduling. Scheduling has a...

It's very...

They wouldn't, though you might register them for counting purposes. We see conferences that require speakers to register, and they count in the room for things like fire codes and...

I don't think meetings are bad for a crisis, but they should be for few people, often managers, that get updates from workers and pass them along.

Someone should lightly evaluate...

Interesting. What about students that are also teachers? TAs, someone seeking a second cert?

I suspect I've got a couple application databases that could be moved to SQL on Linux, they don't use SSIS or SSRS (and, yes, we're still using SSRS) and...