Category: News

2010 PASS Summit Interviews

It’s entirely fair to say that the highlight of my professional year is the PASS Summit in Seattle, and the highlight of the Summit is the recorded interviews we do each year (starting in 2009). The way we pick interviews is, we say “Who do we like, and/or is really cool, and/or would like to […]

PASS Summit Speaker Evals – THE ANALYSIS

I’m inspired by Brent Ozar‘s and Andy Leonard‘s sharing of their PASS feedback scores and comments. But first, I’m going to tell you how I think my PASS session went: I give it a C+. 118 people attended the session, and it ranked (by average score) 170th out of 185, so I feel that my assessment is […]

24HOP WIT in March? Jen says YES.

Gender, gender differences, differences in the workplace…all touchy subjects. We’ve handled the WIT talks – both in person and online – pretty well this year in the SQL community, but of course we continue to have our differences. At the PASS Summit Women in Technology luncheon this year, Tom LaRock (blog, Twitter) was hit with […]