Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fourth day was awesome. I had scheduled nearly 8 meetings with different groups of people today. It was really really fun. Let us see the keypoints for the same.
PASS President Wayne Snyder honor and thank Kevin Kline for his 10 YEARS of service.
Kevin then gets a well-deserved standing ovation from the entire audience.
Next year’s [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The third day at SQL PASS Summit was education + entertainment day for me. During the last 10 days, I woke up at 4:00 AM regularly. However, as I had way too much fun yesterday at various parties earlier, I did not get up till 7:30 AM. By the time I woke up, I realized [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on November 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The second day of PASS started with very engaging and it started with an original game invented by Stuart Ainsworth. This game involves finding twitter people in real life. As I was not one of the square in bingo, I had decided to participate in game myself and try to win if I can. During [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on November 3, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Day 1 at PASS was awesome. I usually write everything in detail when I have to cover any project. This time, I have decided to cover this event little bit differently and with lots of images. For day 1, I have more than 90 photos taken with many SQL celebrities and different sessions. I will [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged Training on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As mentioned earlier in a blog post SQL SERVER – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – A Dream Coming True, I got the wonderful opportunity to attend the course of Itzik Ben-Gan. Itzik is one of the true masters of SQL Server, and his fame had set my expectations quite high. The most interesting aspect is [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority News, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on October 31, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an independent, not-for-profit association, dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting the Microsoft SQL Server community. From local user groups and special interest groups (Virtual Chapters) to webcasts and the annual PASS Community Summit – the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals in the world – PASS is [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I received few emails regarding where can people meet me at SQL PASS event in Seattle. I am currently in Bellevue attending Itzik Ben-Gan’s class. I am immensely enjoying the class, and I shall post details about the class once it is over.
If you are attending SQL PASS and interested to meet me, I will [...]
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Posted in Business Intelligence, MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged Beyond Relational, PASS, SQL PASS on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As PASS is now one week away and I am all excited for the same. I am going to attend following two sessions for sure. I encourage all of you to also visit the same sessions. We can all talk about SQL , SQL Integration as well Beyond Relations.
First sessions I will be attending of [...]
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Posted in Best Practices, Database, MVP, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PASS, SQL PASS on October 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
PASS Summit 2009 is now only 10 days away and I am very excited for the same. I can not wait to attend the summit as this is the most awaited conference of SQL Server in world. Everybody will be there and there will be something for everybody. My core expertise is in Query Optimization [...]
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Posted in MVP, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology on October 5, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Community TechDays at Ahmedabad was a great successful event. In fact, this can be considered the biggest event held in Ahmedabad thus far along with community. This event was held by Microsoft and PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server). The goal of this event was to dive deep into the world of Microsoft technologies and [...]
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