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I'll be attending SQL Saturday 35

By Allen Kinsel, 3 months and 21 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, 3 months and 22 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, 3 months and 25 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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PASS Program Update #3

By Allen Kinsel, 4 months and 17 days ago

Its been a while since I wrote an update about whats been happening in the PASS Program Committee.  I just havent had time to write about it with all of the work thats going on in addition to my regular day job.  Hopefully Ill have time now to do a better job at this!

The annual content survey was sent out and the results are in, I'd like to go on record now and say, Im not a BI user/admin/developer.  We took the BI questions from last year's survey (which were obviously from 2008).  Unfortunately, while going through them and updating the questions I didnt reach out to a BI person and get a gut check for the BI questions.  So we wound up with some out of date info in that section.  I swear we like BI @ PASS, I just goofed, there's not some secret conspiracy, and YES to the 1 of you who asked, I do read all of the comments .  The good news, for those that asked, the survey results will be released as soon as we can get them collated and readable (any day now)  **UPDATE** The survey responses are here there are definitely some very interesting tidbits to be mined from this.

We are making progress in working on several projects, from redoing the speaker resources, to developing a new system to house the speaker evaluation data.  As with all things volunteer driven, these tasks are taking time but thats not unexpected.It has to be better than this

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April Houston SQL Server Users group meeting

By Allen Kinsel, 4 months and 26 days ago

In Houston?  Hungry for lunch?  Want to learn SQL Server from an expert?  Head over to the Microsoft office and learn the top SQL mistakes and how to avoid them from Kevin Kline

Not in Houston?  or hungry?  there's always the live meeting option!

Here are the details from the HASSUG Site:

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