March 8, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL Bits,
SQL PASS,
SQL SaturdayI'm sad to say that I'm going to have to cut back on the number of SQL Saturday's that I'm going to be able to attend this year. It's not because I don't love PASS, or SQL Saturday, or the attendees as much as I did before, because it's not. I'm just so busy that I've been royally screwing up...
March 5, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
SQL PASS,
SQL Saturday,
SQL Server,
StorageOver the weekend I had the pleasure of presenting to the great folks at SQL Saturday 109. I'm pretty sure this was my largest SQL Saturday to date to attend with over 400 people attending the session. Because of the massive number of great speakers, including MVPs, Microsoft Employees and local...
February 13, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
SQL PASS,
SQL Server,
Storage,
VirtualizationSo I think it's been kept pretty quiet so far, as I've been insanely busy the last few weeks, but I am so thrilled to say that I've been picked to present a pre-con at the SQL PASS Rally in Dallas, Texas either on May 8th or May 9th (I haven't been told which day yet). Either way I can't wait to...
January 2, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
PASS,
Social Commentary,
SQL PASS,
SQL ServerToday (technically yesterday) begins the reign of the new president of the SQL PASS organization. Taking the lead of the organization is someone who I'm happy to call a good friend, Bill Graziano (@billgraziano |
October 27, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
MVP Summit,
Social Commentary,
SQL PASSEmail is pretty much the most annoying necessary evil out there. Another annoying necessary evil out there is the out of office message. Normally these aren't to annoying over all as they let you know that someone that you've sent a message to isn't going to be responding for a while.
Where...
October 17, 2011 9:37 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
PASS,
SQL PASS,
SQL PASS 2011,
SQL ServerGoing to the PASS summit is an amazing experience as you've probably noticed from all the wrap up posts that you've seen. However the downside to PASS is the sad reality that after the summit has ended you have to get back to normal work and your normal life. But that isn't actually true. You can...
October 14, 2011 6:52 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Confio,
Kerry Tyler,
Pat Wright,
SQL PASS,
SQL PASS 2011,
Tamara ClarkSince I didn't make it to the SQL PASS keynotes this morning, I figured that I'd tell you about another little event that happened late last night. Last night there was a SQL PASS first. There was a wedding here at the PASS summit. Tamera Clark (
October 13, 2011 4:50 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Keynotes,
PASS,
SQL PASS,
SQL PASS 2011,
SQL ServerWelcome to SQL PASS Summit Keynote on Day 2. Today was another day of announcements made by Quentin Clark who is the Corporate VP for Microsoft who is in charge of the SQL Server database engine.
Quentin started his talk about how SQL Server 2012 will improve the way that SQL Server provides...
October 12, 2011 5:02 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Azure,
SQL PASS,
SQL PASS 2011,
SQL Server,
SQL Server 2012,
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2Today was Day 1 of the SQL PASS summit. Today there were a few announcements during the keynotes which if you didn’t see on the live streaming site you probably want to hear about.
During the PASS portion of the keynote we also heard about the massive amount of training the the SQL PASS...