As I finish up preparing for the Sep 20 (@1pm ET) webcast, I thought a final blog post may be appropriate in order to quickly reference many of the areas that I have touched upon.  Naturally, much of this information is geared towards First Timers, but Alumni are welcome to join in the webcast as well and are encouraged to help spread even ...

I really don't think that you can get the full flavor of the Summit unless you delve into Social Networking.  There are multiple vehicles for social networking.  Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Yelp are all tools in the Social Networking Toolbox.  At the Summit, the best one of these is Twitter.  With twitter, yo ...

One of the things that you should do is map out your ''Learning Itinerary'' before coming to the summit. It probably will change once you get onsite, but having a plan will save you time and perhaps some frustration.  You can go to the Summit website and start to build your schedule. When you arrive at registration to get your badge and ...

I am in the process of finalizing a date (week of Sep 19) for a LiveMeeting event that will focus on the upcoming PASS Community Summit. It will be primarily targeted at the first-timers to the Summit, but everyone will be welcome to join.  There will be event information forthcoming on the PASS website - www.sqlpass.org. Here is a ...

This past fall, I decided to take a break from Fantasy Football.  Did I miss it? Yes to some extent.  Fantasy Football can really eat up a lot of time. But - I still love March Madness (NCAA Men's Basketball Tourney).  It doesn't take much time to pick out teams.  Since you can't make any changes after the deadline and the ...

Every year in March, the Men's College Basketball Championship Tourney Begins.  For the past few years, I've put together a ''League''.  This year is no different.  The prize...  Bragging Rights - that's it - nothing else.... Follow the link below to sign up!  Picks must be made by Thursday before the games ...

SQL Saturday is coming to Charlotte next month!  If you are in the area, come on by.  We have a great line-up of speakers.  Find out more information at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/33/eventhome.aspx  

As I reviewed the sessions by our pre/post-con speakers who also participated in the 24 Hours of PASS event, I was disturbed that the single session with the MOST attendees during the event had no audio (no one can hear you scream in cyber-space).  Immediately, I conferred with Pual and Louis.  We decided that a ''redo'' was the best ...

Once again, we will have a league for SQL Bloggers and Blog readers.  Sign-up quickly as the season starts Thursday!  But we probably won't start our fantasy season until week 2. Go to Yahoo's Fantasy Football - The League's ID is 667860 and the Password is rssfeed. Join in and play head-to-head against others who think in ''WHERE'' ...

I have been busy on organizing an event which I hope that many in the community will find useful.  The event will consist of 24 1-hour webcasts featuring some of the best community speakers on SQL Server.  The event will begin 2-September-2009 at Midnight (GMT - no daylight time - so that is also UTC).  I am in the Eastern Time zone ...