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I’m going to my first SQL Saturday!
I got to go to the Pass Summit in 2011 and had a fantastic time despite some travel issues caused by my own stupidity. Shortly after that I got to go to the Pass Rally in Dallas and had an even more...
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A better way to find missing indexes
I recently attended SQL Saturday #255 and specifically the performance tuning pre-con put on by Grant Fritchey. It was a great seminar and well worth the time (a very long day including travel) and...
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Thank you!
I won’t be able to make it to the PASS Summit this year but I still consider myself part of the community. The #sqlfamily. I was reading an interesting twitter conversation this morning about...
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Argenis and the unicorn hoodie
Early yesterday Kirsten Benzel(b/t) announced something very exciting, at least exciting to me. Argenis Fernandez(b/t) has agreed to wear a unicorn hoodie to the 2014 Pass Summit. Why is this exciting?...
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TSQL Tuesday #61: Giving Back, you gain more than you give.
Almost four months ago I posted my goals for the next year in my two year anniversary post. I pretty much decided I was going to continue on the same way I’d been going. Actively posting, writing the...
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Test first; Mileage may vary;
I went to a SQL Saturday recently and saw a number of great sessions. If you haven’t been to a SQL Saturday before I highly recommend it. It’s a day of free training and networking put on by Pass. The...
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Pass TV
Recently Adam Machanic (b/t) was telling me about an interesting effect of the top operator. When I asked for an example he pointed me to a few of his sessions from various Pass Summits. They are...
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Zero to Speaker pt 2
A few months ago I wrote a post about the fact that I had actually submitted a session to PASS Summit. Well as I’m sure you are aware the selected sessions have been announced. They were officially...
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#ArgenisWithoutBorders the Sequel
Last year Kirsten Benzel(b/t) and Argenis Fernandez(b/t) did this amazing thing. They organized a campaign and raised over $13,000 for Doctors Without Borders. The campaign was called...
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Questions from “SQL Server Security for Everyone”
I recently gave my SQL Server Security for Everyone session at Summit 2015. (I’m still in awe about that by the way.) First of all here are the PowerPoint slides:...
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Naught to Speaker pt 3
Becoming a speaker is one heck of a journey. Early this year I submitted a session to speak at Pass Summit 2015 and was enormously shocked to be accepted as an alternate. Well that was 5 months ago now...
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This year PASS is trying something new at PASS Summit. There are going to be Learning Pathways. A learning pathway is at least three sessions on a single subject that will get you started on a new (or...
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