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 for Resale) copy of SQL Server 2008 Standard for free.  Add this to the fact that you get ...

Business Intelligence at RESTSeptember 8th at 1:00 PM EasternPresenter: Andy Leonard  I am honored to present Business Intelligence at REST to the PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter on 8 Sep 2009! This is going to be a fun presentation for me. I'm going to talk about my weather station and some business intelligence I've wrapped ...

Introduction So, it's a few minutes before the PASS Summit 2008 Thursday keynote, and I'm settled into the Press Table behind the sound board. Tony Davis is here. Steve Jones is here. And I'm seated beside Brent Ozar. Rushabh Mehta To complement Wayne Snyder's entrance on a bike yesterday, Rushabh Mehta showed up this morning on a cool-looking ...

The keynote today was delivered by Ted Kummert, Corporate VP, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft.  Before Ted started, Wayne Snyder showed up on stage, sitting on a hog and surrounded by smoke or dry ice or something.  He talked about how PASS has grown over the past year in several areas:chapters (136)membership ...

Fall is now in full swing, and after a relatively quiet several months my speaking schedule is about to jump into fairly-packed mode.  Following is a list of where I'll be headed over the next couple of months: Next week I'm really excited to be teaching a day of the Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft SQL server 2008 program's beta ...

I finally get to meet Brian Kelley in person! I'll be presenting Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008 to the Midlands PASS Chapter in Columbia, SC on Thursday 2 Oct 2008! If you're in the area and read this blog, stop by and say ''Hi''. :{> Andy