PASS

  • Hi all,

    I am often hearing this word here. what it is ?

    karthik

  • is it a group ? do we need to pay for this group ? Can you explain me the purpose of PASS ?

    karthik

  • karthikeyan (7/3/2008)


    is it a group ? do we need to pay for this group ? Can you explain me the purpose of PASS ?

    Have a look at http://www.sqlpass.org/

    Regards,

    Andras


    Andras Belokosztolszki, MCPD, PhD
    GoldenGate Software

  • Frequently you'll see people refer to meeting at PASS or going to PASS. Then they're not talking about the Professional Association of SQL Server users, as linked above, but the PASS Community Summit[/url].

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • What is the advantage of going to PASS summit?

  • It's a great opportunity to meet other SQL Server professionals and get information about all aspects of SQL Server.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral.com/62979/

    Greg

  • Yeah, all the training, access to Microsoft programmers, PSS, the vendors, the swag, Steve's magnificent night of gambling... All great stuff.

    The absolute most important part of the Summit is getting together with your peers from across the country. Building a network of individuals that you can help and that can help you. If nothing else, having a shoulder to cry on that really understands why you're crying. If you go and you don't spend most of your time talking to people, you've at least partially wasted the trip.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Grant Fritchey (7/3/2008)


    The absolute most important part of the Summit is getting together with your peers from across the country. Building a network of individuals that you can help and that can help you. If nothing else, having a shoulder to cry on that really understands why you're crying. If you go and you don't spend most of your time talking to people, you've at least partially wasted the trip.

    QFT.

    Been able to speak one on one with some of the top SQL experts in the world is amazingly useful. Been able to sit down with your peers, swap war stories and see how they solve problems is invaluable.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • I had to go and look QFT up. :ermm:

    See, even when you're not teaching, you're teaching. There's a darn good reason you're an MVP.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Grant Fritchey (7/3/2008)


    I had to go and look QFT up. :ermm:

    Sorry.

    For anyone else reading. QFT = "Quote For Truth"

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • HA!

    And I thought you meant Quality Face Time...

    Oh jeez. The internet has let me down... again...

    :alien:

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • I have gone for the past 6 years and would count it as an invaluable experience.

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