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• PASS Summit 2010 – Session Presentations and Demos

  I know I am late on actually publishing these, but here are the presentation slide decks and demo’s from the two sessions I presented at PASS Summit 2010. Attached to this post are two zip files that contain all the materials for each of the sessions. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:48 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 5 Comments Filed under: Presentations, PASS Attachment(s): SQL PASS 2010 Presentations.zip

• PASS 2010 Birds of a Feather Lunch

  We are just weeks away from the #SQLPASS North American Summit for 2010 and yesterday. Mike Walsh ( Blog | Twitter ) posted the list of topics for the Birds of a Feather Lunch event that was started last year and has been continued into this year.  Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:26 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 5 Comments Filed under: PASS

• Have the Experts at your Fingertips! Buy the PASS Summit DVDs!

  Last year after returning from PASS Summit, I blogged about The benefits of attending PASS realized! , where I provided a specific example of how attending had helped me in troubleshooting a problem in my environment.  I love PASS Summit, its the Read More... Posted Monday, July 12, 2010 11:41 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 1 Comments Filed under: PASS

• PASS Session Evaluations

  Tonight I got my session evaluations back from PASS for the first large presentation I have ever done.  I am somewhat surprised by the results, they are actually much better than I expected.  I definitely have a number of things to work on as Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:12 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 0 Comments Filed under: Presentations, PASS

• Follow Up on Failed Connections and Threadpool waits

  A comment was posted on my blog post The benefits of attending PASS realized! asking for a follow up as a result of investigating this problem. In that post, I mentioned that a high number of unused connections in oversized connection pools were causing Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:51 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 2 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, PASS, Wait Statistics

• Q: Should You Present At Your Local User Group?

  A: You Bet!!! Lets face it, User Groups need speakers and while its great to have the experts in the industry like Andy Leonard, Buck Woody, or Joe Webb come to your user group, if you get one of them once a year, you are doing good.  One of the Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:15 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 10 Comments Filed under: Presentations, PASS

• The benefits of attending PASS realized!

  A lot of conversation this year occurred regarding return on investment (ROI) justifications tending the PASS Summit.  Lets face it, the economy has been tough on a lot of businesses and the idea of spending a few thousand dollars on conference admission, Read More... Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:23 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 11 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, PASS, Wait Statistics

• SQL PASS 2009 Takeaways

  I am just getting home from SQL PASS Summit 2009 and by the time you read this it will have been over 12 hrs since I actually wrote it.  (Turns out it took over 96hrs to actually get this posted online) I learned quite a few lessons this year while Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 8:17 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 3 Comments Filed under: PASS

• SQL PASS Twitter Bingo - Join the Fun

  This year at PASS, SQLServerPedia in conjunction with PASS and Quest Software is hosting a Twitter Bingo game.  Rules are available on Stuart Ainsworth's blog post here .  I am not a face on a card this year, so I'll be tracking people down Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:52 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 0 Comments Filed under: PASS

• Less than two weeks to PASS Summit 2009

  Coming right off a excellent weekend in Central Florida with SQL Saturday, PASS Summit is now less than two weeks away.  Hopefully by now you have already registered since there was a lower price for early registration, but in the event that you Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:39 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 0 Comments Filed under: Presentations, Extended Events, PASS

• 24 Hours of PASS Recordings - Pre/Post-Conference Speaker Sessions Available

  The session recordings from 24 hours of PASS for the Pre/Post-Conference Speakers at PASS Summit have been made available on the SQL PASS Website.  It’s not very intuitive where exactly you have to click on the landing page they provide so I thought Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:32 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 1 Comments Filed under: Presentations, PASS

• SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for FREE? (Seriously)

  The Data Platform Team at Microsoft blogged about this already: http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2009/09/03/get-a-free-copy-of-sql-server-2008-standard-edition.aspx If you attend PASS Summit 2009, you can receive your very own (Not Read More... Posted Friday, September 04, 2009 1:44 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, SQL Server 2008, PASS

• 24 Hours of PASS (well kind of)

  So last night I thought I started off in the first session of 24 hours of PASS with Paul and Louis, and I had originally picked 5 sessions that I was going to attend and I originally planned to stick with that.  However, Tom LaRock (twitter/blog) Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:48 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 7 Comments Filed under: Presentations, PASS