Category: News

PASS Summit 2013 Schedule

Each year, I like to compile my own shortcut, cheat sheet version of the PASS Summit schedule. I’m not talking about the actual session schedule – we (will) have a perfectly good schedule builder on sqlpass.org, so that’s covered. I’m talking about social events, luncheons, keynotes, parties, special days…pretty much everything that’s NOT a session […]

A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)

I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve been putting off since 2008* – and I’m not using braindumps. I just wanted to brain dump HERE a bit. (And btw, you can follow my mid-study ramblings on twitter at #mcmstudy, if it […]

Terminal #MCM – 30 days to go

We just finished the webshow last night, when one of our chatroom fellows – Nic Cain – told us that the MCM and MCA programs were dying. He almost immediately blogged the news: MS was canceling the Microsoft Certified Master and Microsoft Certified Architect programs, and it was all up as of October 1, 2013. […]