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Archive for September, 2007
PASS Musings
So, PASS 2007 is over. It has been done for the past week now, and I have been piecing together my thoughts since then. I started thinking about PASS in general, then I started to focus on specific items such as “what do I get for my membership fee”?
In the past week I have [...]
Speaking
Today I made my first presentation at a PASS conference. The whole process took months to come together. I started back in the Spring putting together my abstract and was fortunate to be accepted. After it was accepted, I went to work putting it all together. I prepared my talk and presented to a couple [...]
Let The People See Their MOM!
During the PASS conference this year I was informed by more than a few colleagues that their companies have MOM 2005, but they are not able to utilize it for their own needs. Why? Why would they not be allowed to work with the MOM administrator to customize MOM for even just a few things? [...]
Denver – Day Five
Today is the last day for the conference, and I am quite tired. To make things worse, my flight out of here is at 6:30AM tomorrow morning. Ick. I checked on some options to leave earlier, but none were viable. So, it looks like I will head to dinner with some friends, stay up most [...]
Denver – Day Four
Today was another good day, full of good content as well as lots of networking opportunities. After the keynote session, I headed over to a talk about execution plan cache analysis. There was lots of good information presented regarding the new dynamic management views in SS2K5. Some cool tricks were shown as well, including how [...]
Denver – Day Three
Today the conference is in full swing. There seems to be a little less energy this year, I am not certain why that might be the case. Perhaps it was the late night karaoke that has me a little worn down.
The keynote session was informative as we were introduced to some of the new [...]
Denver – Day Two
Today is the day that is set aside for Volunteer Training. About forty or so PASS Volunteers get together and spend the day discussing various topics about PASS in general. The best part of the day are the parts where we break out into smaller, more focused groups, to discuss any necessary issues. The advantage [...]
Denver – Day One (and night)
The first day is done here in Denver. It was longer than expected, but as always it was full of information. I started my day by heading over to registration with nothing in my hands except for a piece of paper that said I had paid for the conference. Every year I lug around way [...]
Denver
Well, I made it to Denver for the 2007 PASS conference. I lived in Denver for six months back in ’99, so this is like aa mini-homecoming for me this week. After my arrival I met up with some colleagues and took a strool around town. I had lots of good memories of my time [...]
Where Have the DBA’s Gone?
As my children get older I start to play more and more advanced games with them. First, we started with rattles and things that made noise. Then we moved to chasing around the room and the well-known “Tickle Monster”. Recently it has been games that involve communication skills and reasoning. The latest game I have [...]
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