The PASS Executive Committee
I was just reading The PASS Board Guidance Policy . Overall a reasonable document and absolutely worth reading if you’re thinking about...
2017-03-22
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SQLAndy
Thinking about Chapters (aka Groups)
I think it was 2003 or 2004 when someone from PASS came to Orlando and helped start what became OPASS....
2017-03-11
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The Ebb & Flow of Community Participation
It’s an interesting moment when you discover the SQL community (or any other I suppose). It’s the moment of finding the...
2017-03-05
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Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
How often is cost the deciding factor in the case of Windows vs Linux? And what if cost wasn’t a...
2017-02-07
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Worth Reading – Something I learned while unemployed by Rod Falanga
SQLServerCentral recently published Something I learned while unemployed. Written by Rod Falanga, it has lessons worth learning about making time to...
2017-01-28
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Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting
This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...
2017-01-23
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Joint OPASS/MagicPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (January 18, 2017)
Grant Fritchey will be presenting Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone and Denny Cherry is presenting Optimizing SQL Server Performance in...
2017-01-17
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Should We Allow Paid Sponsor Presentations at PASS Summit?
For many years the PASS Summit program committee has enforced a bright line rule – no sponsor content in the educational...
2017-01-09
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Moving to WordPress.com
For years I’ve hosted WordPress somewhere, most recently in Azure using Project Nami so that I could store all the...
2017-01-08
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Reflecting on Ten Years of SQLSaturday
It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 10 years since we started the planning for the first event in...
2016-12-16 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
Forums
Automating Export of PowerQuery to SQL Server using DAX Studio...?
I wrote a PowerQuery that parses a table from a PDF, and I want...
Attaching an SQL Server database without Transaction Log Files through SQL Server Management Studio.
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Superseded Indexes
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Question of the Day
Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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