Notes from the May 6th, 2010 oPASS Meeting

We moved to Thursday this month to line things up so that Dean Richards from Confio could do a presentation...

Notes on SQLSaturday #38

Started Friday by picking up the shirts for the event in Orlando, then heading to Jacksonville with the family, getting...

SQLSaturday Summit at the PASS Summit

Now that we’ve moved SQLSaturday to PASS and we’re seeing some really nice growth in the number of events, I...

Reminder – SQLSaturday #38 in Jacksonville Tomorrow

It’s the third time for Jacksonville, hosting SQLSaturday #38 tomorrow at the University of North Florida. It’s about an hour...

Book Review: The Checklist Manifesto

I saw The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande ($15 @ Amazon) at the bookstore and had to read it. I’ve used...

American Express PASS Card (Not What You Think)

Had logged in to American Express check my business account and noticed this on on the front page – a PASS...

New SQL Server Standard: Resource Governor by Roy Ernest

The latest issue of the SQL Server Standard is available for download (login required, free registration). Volume 7 Issue 4...

Review: SSD Tweaker

Ran across this while doing some other reading, SSD Tweaker lets you change a few settings that are supposed to...

PASS Update #31 (Election Prep)

Sometime soon we’ll start the process of the 2010 PASS election, with three seats on the Board of Directors being...

Follow Up: LinkedIn Poll

A couple weeks ago I wrote about testing the LinkedIn polling capability, putting up this poll:

The response rate wasn’t great,...