PASS Summit Virtual Speaker Idol 2020
It’s that time of year again. The PASS Summit speaker announcement was published yesterday. And that means that today is the kick-off for the PASS Summit Speaker Idol 2020 signups. As the PASS Summit is going to be virtual this year, that means that the Speaker Idol competition for this year will also be online. […]
PASS–An Organization in Trouble
PASS is an organization that has helped my career at many levels. I’ve served as a user group leader, a SQL Saturday organizer, a regional mentor, and spoken at PASS events around the world. PASS has a big problem–its main revenue source is the annual PASS Summit, which isn’t happening in person this year due […]
Open Letter to PASS
As you know, I spoke to 12 Chapter Leaders and 4 Regional Mentors yesterday. All are very upset with PASS right now and feel slighted, which as a volunteer myself, I empathize. I have given the feedback, to you. After talking with them here is where the problem lies IMHO: communication and transparency. We received an email taking away our token of appreciation PASS gives us for all our yearlong hard work that helps to build and amplify this community. In the email we also were asked to please promote and encourage Summit registrations among other things. You cannot take… Continue Reading
My Thoughts on PASS Virtual Summit – An Editorial
On June 3rd PASS announced their annual Summit for Data Professional was moved to a virtual format. This is not surprising to those of us in the SQL Server community. Many events are moving to a virtual platform as well as being able to offer at no costs all attendees. PASS though, is a different kind of “company” for lack of a better word. We are a community of people that built this “company” from the ground up. Due to normal day to day commitments, like jobs, most of us do not have time to run the day to day… Continue Reading
3 Pre-Cons at the #sqlpass Summit You Don’t Want to Miss
The team at Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting is thrilled to announce that we will have 3 presenters each presenting a full day presentation at the PASS Summit. Denny’s Session Denny Cherry will be presenting an all-day session called “Microsoft Azure Platform Infrastructure”. In this one-day session, we’ll review the various infrastructure components that make […]
Introducing our Emergency Response service at DCAC
According to Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600: PER MINUTE Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting is introducting our Emergency Response service. With this service companies will have peace-of-mind when the inevitable 3am production outage happens. These events could be a: Catastrophic Event Suddenly Sluggish Production Unexpected Failover Malware Infection By signing up […]
