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Community Choice Sessions at the PASS Summit 2010

By Allen Kinsel, 9 days ago

Its Still Alive

Yes this blog is still alive!  I recently had some hard decisions to make with regards to what I needed to drop in order to get at least 3 hours of sleep in a night.  And unfortunately for the 3 of you that read my blog, it was the blog that lost that battle.  I should be getting back in the habit of writing now that the biggest crunch time for the program committee at the PASS Summit is over.

What happened?

Short answer : The PASS Summit speaker selection process. (Program Committee Manager role)

Longer yet short answer: The PASS Summit program committee leadership position is a very involved volunteer position, taking more hours of my time than I can count (Just ask my wife!!).  For the last month the 4 amigo's (Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter) , Lori Edwards(Blog|Twitter), Elena Sebastiano (PASSHQ), and myself) have been working tirelessly towards the first goal of announcing the community sessions.  With that out of the way the PASS work doesn't stop, we get to do other «fun» stuff.  Innovate with PASS if you like, because that's what we're going to try to do!!   

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SQL Saturday 35 Recap

By Allen Kinsel, 2 months and 4 days ago

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I made my way to Dallas to take part in the SQL Saturday #35 that the NTSSUG was sponsoring.  After reading the excellent reviews from Jonathan Gardner, AJ Mendo, and Bill Fellows.  I thought Id keep this very short and say «I concur!»  --Profound aint it?

Ok, Ill dig a little deeper--

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I'll be attending SQL Saturday 35

By Allen Kinsel, 2 months and 12 days ago

I'm happy that I finally figured out how to clear my schedule enough to get to Dallas and soak up some free SQL Server Training

If you happen to be at the SQL Saturday #35 in Dallas this weekend, please introduce yourself.  Ill be there and as always wearing my (Ugly)green SQLPASS 2006 laptop bag.

I really wish PASS still gave out real laptop bags, you'd be surprised how many people will stop and ask you about it if they're SQL Server related.  Its too bad they decided to do away with this ice breaking networking tool in favor of a 1 time use, throw it in the trash poly bag.

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Special Houston Area SQL Server group meeting

By Allen Kinsel, 2 months and 13 days ago

Want to learn SQL from a master (or even better a pair of masters?)  Have a free evening?  Live within a reasonable drive of Houston?  You wont want to miss this presentation.  Over the years I've had the opportunity to listen to hundreds of different SQL speakers and 2 people who would make my short list of «don't miss presenters» happen to be presenting at a HASSUG meeting this month.

If your not in Houston, I'd recommend using the LiveMeeting link!!

The following Info is from the http://houston.sqlpass.org site

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PASS Summit Call for Speakers Now Open or “enter now for your chance to win!”

By Allen Kinsel, 2 months and 16 days ago

Hey, I bet you've heard by now that the PASS Call for speakers is now open.

No matter what your skill level as a public speaker, I would encourage you to submit an abstract.  Even if you think you're not good enough or don't have enough speaking experience, go ahead and submit an abstract.  It may be your lucky day and your abstract will be selected, at worst it will be practice in the art of composing a good abstract.

Why will this be good experience?  After looking through thousands of abstract submissions for years I've decided that composing a good abstract is an art.  It requires equal parts black magic and pixie dust to make a good abstract, and even when you have that it takes a bit of luck to get it accepted at a national conference.

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  • Community Choice Sessions at the PASS Summit 2010:
    • Allen Kinsel: Thanks, We hope that this will be a good test of community selections, and hope to expand it a bit in the future
    • robert cook: glad you decided to keep blogging and gracias to you and your amigos for giving an opportunity to the sql community for direct involvement with session choices
  • Sql Server and SSPI handshake failed error hell:
    • Robert L Davis: I agree about the reboot. That's why I check SPN's before DC/Kerberos errors. An SPN can be fixed without rebooting, but if the issue is DC connection and no one can log in to the SQL Server, you're down anyway so a reboot shouldn't be out of the question. The problem with having a...
    • Allen Kinsel: I guess should have worded that a little differently, in my experience in a lot of environments kerberos isnt used since its not configured, so it always falls back to NTLM, with only NTLM and no Kerberos in the result list, its usually safe to say that SPN's arent the issue. I...
    • NULLgarity: This post should win an award. These SSPI errors have cause me all sorts of trouble over the years and are EXTREMELY difficult to troubleshoot. In my experience, they often went away before I even had a chance to look into them. Thanks for the post!
    • Shawn Melton: It's been a while since I have done SA duties with AD but I would be curious too. I actually have a User Group meeting tonight (06/17/10) with an MCT that teaches AD and will ask him if he can explain that authentication mess.
    • Robert L Davis: sys.dm_exec_connections does not tell you what protocol they used to attempt their connection. It tells you which protocol suceeded. Kerberos is ALWAYS tried first and NTLM is used as a failback. So if they show as using NTLM, it's not because they didn't attempt to use Kerberos, its because Kerberos wasn't successful. In my...
  • SQL Saturday 35 Recap:
    • Jen McCown: Cookout, eh? Maybe we'll have the next after party at chez McCown :)

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