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A Post-mortem for PASS, and What That NDA* Issue Was

Post author By jdanton1
Post date August 20, 2021
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Editor’s Note: I wrote this last December, and went back and forth on publishing. As I see some of the poor leadership patterns from PASS, creeping into new offshoots of the SQL Community, I decided to publish it today. I am not writing this to dance on the grave of PASS or throw pitchforks at […]

24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview—Getting Started with Linux

Post author By jdanton1
Post date July 13, 2017
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Next week is the 24 Hours of PASS—which is a free event PASS puts on to showcase some of the sessions you will get to see at November’s PASS Summit. I’m going to be giving a preview on my session on Linux—I’ll be talking about how to get started learning Linux, installing a SQL test […]

24 Hours of PASS—Summit Preview Linux

Post author By jdanton1
Post date July 13, 2017
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unSQL Friday–Lessons Learned while Presenting

Post author By jdanton1
Post date June 3, 2011
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Jen McCown (blog|twitter) has organized a great topic for this unSQL Friday–lessons learned while presenting. Like she mentioned in her post–these don’t necessarily have to be tragedies, just things you’ve picked up along the way while presenting. Fortunately, in my few years of doing technical presentations, I’ve never had a major demo failure, or a […]

SQL Rally–What I’ll be watching

Post author By jdanton1
Post date March 17, 2011
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If you’re still on the fence about going to SQL Rally, and need more rationale for why you should go, then check out the GREAT schedule at the website. Below are the sessions I plan on attending when I’m not presenting my session—Using Data Tier Applications to Deploy Applications to SQL Azure (which I’ll discuss […]

Upcoming Events

I have the good fortune to be presenting at upcoming events in Philadelphia, Boston, and Orlando. This weekend at SQL Saturday #69 I will be presenting the following: 10:00 AM Building your first SQL Cluster 12:30 PM (Along with Mark Kromer from Microsoft) Migrate SQL Server Apps to SQL Azure Cloud DB 3:45 PM Deploying […]