NOT A WHINER I've been really intrigued by a meme making the rounds of the blogsphere concerning goals for the coming year and picking a theme word, rather than the usual New Year's resolution. Et tu, BrentO?As with all memes, they start with a blogger picking the topic of discussion (in this case, Tara Hunt at HPC) and was picked up by my ...

In the Sequels for SQL series, I point you to sites where you can go beyond the nose-to-the-grindstone resources that we see every day as SQL Server professionals.  (My favorite resource for pan-SQL Server pointers is Steve Jone's Database Weekly email newsletter.)  These are the story that comes after and outside (the sequels) of ...

Well this isn't really a funny story given the like the others given the destruction that occurred but here goes.  A number of years back PASS was at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando and we had a hurricane come thru a few days before the conference started. I had planned to come in a few days early anyway to play a few rounds of golf. Well the ...

It's hard for me to believe that I started working with the first board of directors for PASS nearly a decade ago, but it's true.  PASS has grown over the years due to the support of the user community, the SQL Server expert community, and Microsoft's SQL Server team.  This year's conference is just around the corner in ...