PASS Summit Speaker Selection Changes—My Take

Monday PASS announced its changes to the speaker selection process, you can read the details here. This is a big change—there will be preselected speakers from a pool have folks who have a long track record of successfully speaking at PASS Summit. Is this a good thing or bad thing? I think it is a […]

You’re Speaking…and You Don’t Have Slides

I had this dream that other week. I was in the big room at PASS Summit, sitting in the audience. I was relaxed, as I thought I was presenting later in the day, when I quickly realized, due to the lack of speaker on the stage, that I was the next speaker, and the room […]

Thanks Rodney for driving me and Grant all over Florida

A few weeks ago Grant Fritchey and I had the chance to speak at five user group meetings in five days, in five cities all over Florida. Clearly we’re both insane as we agreed to do this. Everything was scheduled by Karla Landrum and she got some big shout outs at the User Group meetings….

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SQL Bits Precon: SQL Server on Linux—A Brave New World

My first European trip this year includes two of my favorite bike races, the Tour of Flanders (or as my Belgian friends call it, the Ronde van Vlaanderen) and Paris-Roubaix. In the week between on Wednesday, I will be doing a full day of training at SQLBITS in Telford. I’ve had the good luck to […]

AER: Migrating Legacy Hardware & Software to Azure

The Challenge: In late 2016, Ken Hopkins, COO of AER Technologies, the largest automotive electronics warranty service center and distributor on the West Coast had a major problem. The company’s entire IT environment was failing, due to: Aging hardware (circa 2004) Out of support hardware Out of support software including SQL 2005 Security issues Ken […]