Introduction I admire the way Grant Fritchey (Blog - @GFritchey) blogged about his PASS Summit Evaluations for several reasons. Chief among them: I love the transparency. It's inspiring! Here's mine: BIA-532-S: Applied SSIS Design Patterns, 119 evaluations Usefulness of SessionPoor: 1Average: 15Good: 38Excellent: 65 Speaker’s ...

I had a blast Saturday at Raleigh Code Camp! As usual, Dugald Wilson and crew put on a great community event! Kudos to all involved. Richmond Code Camp is 3 Oct - less than two weeks away. Like the organizers of Raleigh Code Camp and similar community events, the organizers of Richmond Code Camp have been planning for months. We have a ...

I attended my first PASS Summit in 2004. I also attended a pre-conference (pre-con) led by Kalen Delaney. It was awesome! Kalen's pre-con focused on performance tuning, and I learned a lot about both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. The most important thing I learned was: I was not alone! There's a whole lot of us out there, lurking ...