You know, when Microsoft announces ‘deprecation’ of a feature, there is no guarantee that the feature will be gone any time ‘soon’. All that an official notice of deprecation means is that “This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server.” But it could be a far future version. SQL Trace, for example, was announced ...

The PASS Summit is back! This year the most important event around the world for SQL Server Data Platform will be held again in Seattle (WA) from 27 to 30 October 2015 and it will be preceded from two pre-conference days from 25 to 26 October 2015. Why I wrote ''The most important event around the world for SQL Server Data Platform''? Because ...

The Sessions of the event 24 Hours of PASS named ''Summit 2015 Preview Edition'' (which was held the last September 2015 on 17th and 18th) were recorded and now they are available for online streaming! If you have missed one session in particular or the entire event, you can view or review your preferred sessions. Each video is ...

Which sessions can you expect to find at the next PASS Summit 2015? Find it out on September 17, 2015, 12:00 UTC at the Summit 2015 Preview Edition of the 24 Hours of PASS.   Search your preferred sessions by track: Application & Database DevelopmentBI Information DeliveryBI Platform Architecture, Development & ...

Sessions of the event 24 Hours of PASS: Growing Our Community (which was held on last June 24-25) were recorded and now they are available for online streaming! If you have missed one session in particular or the entire event, you can view it or review your preferred sessions. All details are available here. Remember, the next PASS ...

Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very dissimilar to objects in other clusters. Dissimilarities are assessed based on the attribute values describing the objects. There are a large number of clustering algorithms. The ...

So the event is over. I think I can say for all three organizers, Mladen Prajdić, Matija Lah, and me, that we are tired now. However, we are extremely satisfied. It was a great event. First few numbers and comparison with SQL Saturday #274, the first SQL Saturday Slovenia event that took place last year. ...

I am proud and glad I can announce two top pre-conference seminars at the PASS SQL Saturday #356 Slovenia conference. The speakers and the seminars titles are: Stacia Misner - Power Up Your Data with Excel and Power BI Kevin Boles - Tune Like A Guru! Both seminars will take place on Friday, December 12th, in the classrooms of our sponsor ...

The session Troubleshooting Clusters by Allan Hirt (@SQLHA) has been published on channel SQLPASS TV. Abstract Whether you are new to clusters or have years of experience, you may still cross your fingers when implementing a failover cluster instance (FCI) of SQL Server or an availability group (AG). Both require an underlying Windows Server ...

Pure success! I could simply stop here. However, I want to mention again everybody involved in this, and also some who were unfortunately missing. First of all, PASS is the organization that defined SQL Saturdays. And apparently the idea works I have to thank again to all of the speakers. Coming to share your amazing knowledge is something we ...