Things got off to a great start with PASS President Wayne Snyder coming on stage to the tune Born to Be Wild with appropriate video clip and real motorcycle (and don't forget the shades!
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Spent the day today in the PASS Volunteer Training session. It covered a variety of things from the History of PASS (started in 1999 in Chicago) to updates from each member of the Board of Directors about what is happening in their areas.
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Have you seen the PASS web site lately? I'll have to admit that before today I had not looked at it in a long time. To be honest, I was not all that impressed with it in the past.
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If it's good enough for Joe... I just setup my own Twitter account to give this a test run. Looks like a good option for quick comments from the PASS conference that may later lead to broader blog entries.
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By now (we hope) you have fine-tuned your slides and demos, and are feeling very comfortable and confident in the material you are going to present at PASS this week. There are a lot of things that go into preparing for a live presentation, and there are a lot of bad examples out there.
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Well, here we are on the eve of another PASS Community Summit in Seattle. Last year it was in Denver, then two years ago it was here in Seattle. I'm looking forward to another great event!
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Opportunity is a funny thing... it comes along when you least expect it. I believe it was Thomas Edison who said, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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22 days after the big party in San Francisco, I was finally able to attend the local SQL Server 2005 / Visual Studio 2005 / BizTalk Server 2006 launch event here in Seattle.
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The last time that the PASS Community Summit was in Seattle, it was held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle, and it will be again this year.
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Well, today's the day! Today, November 7, 2005, a date which will NOT live in infamy, but hey, it's still kinda cool. Today is the official launch date for SQL Server 2005 (nee Yukon).
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Lately, most of my flying has been between Seattle and San Francisco, which apparently is not long enough for an in-flight movie. On my way down to PASS in Texas this year, I took the red-eye so I was mostly interested in sleeping on the flight.
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There were many great sessions and many great speakers at the PASS Summit this year in Texas, but most of the sessions I went to seemed to have one bad thing in common: too many slides.
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Remember that if you are a member of PASS (and if you registered for the Summit, you automatically became or extended your membership) you can download the speaker presentations. Login to the PASS web site, and then go to Conference Proceedings.
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At the PASS Summit, I attended a session on Reporting Services Tips & Tricks. One of the things that I liked most was not a tip or trick, but a new feature coming in RS 2005.
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Well, I did decide to get up and go to the general session today, despite my concerns from yesterday. I decided that I'd let the Dell dude establish his own reputation.
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Kicking off this morning is Wayne Snyder for PASS. He's crazy, which is just what we need to get the morning started. Wayne is definitely a sanguine personality, loves to have fun and not afraid to be goofy.
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OK, HP, I appreciate that you guys are a major sponsor of the PASS Community Summit, and as such you deserve some general session time. But come on! Send us somebody who exudes at least interest, if not excitement about his subject matter.
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I suppose a fancy sports car or a new house or a couple of Bill's Billions would be the ULTIMATE swag, but this year is better than the last and it just keeps getting better.
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Finally caught up with Tara at the Keynote this morning. Now we're waiting for a session on Execution Plans to get under way. But first wanted to relay some cool things from this morning's Keynote.
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Yes, I typed that right. PASS Community Summit 2006. It has already been announced that next year's summit will be back in Seattle. Start making your plans now to come visit my town!
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