Category Archives: PASS

A Call for Volunteers

In the spring of 2010 I saw this post from Tim Edwards and immediately emailed him.  I was very new to the SQL Server Community at the time and I was looking for ways to get involved.  I thought the Performance Virtual Chapter would be a good fit, and I was right.  Tim selected me…

PASS Summit: Day 5

All right friends, it’s Friday, it’s last day of the 2011 PASS Summit, and I’m sitting at the official bloggers table.  I also present my Baselines session today at 2:30 PM in room4C1-2 (yes, that was a shameless plus).  Sitting at the bloggers table means that I get to try and make written sense of…

PASS Summit: Day 4

Happy Thursday! Bill Graziano, EVP of Finance starts off the morning rocking the kilt. Awesome. So much of what happens within the SQL Server Community is due to the effort from volunteers. Bill asked all volunteers from outside the US to stand, then everyone from the US as well. I recognize a lot of faces….

The Customer Interview

This afternoon I’m presenting with Mike Walsh ( b | t ) and our session is Who’s Responsible? The Vendor or the DBA? One of the topics we cover is Vendor and Customer interviews. Mike has blogged about this previously here, and the post has some great questions to ask a Vendor before the third…