PASS

This is a very brief post to inform you that PASS has died, killed by the for-profit company behind it. That's sad beyond words, but we, as a community, are not destined to the same fate. The community will rise again and build something new. One of the things that we don't want to lose is SQLSaturday. It's been a substantial vehicle for involving community members locally and globally. It has been the launchpad for many community speakers. [Read More]

Brent Ozar recently published the feedback he got on his abstract submissions for PASS Summit 2016 and, as he often does, started a trend which some others followed. I think the feedback is interesting and useful for speakers that plan to improve their own submissions for the years to come, so I decided I will publish my feedback as well. I did not get selected and, obviously, I would be happier if I got selected instead. [Read More]

Some weeks ago I blogged about the discouraging signals coming from Connect and my post started a discussion that didn’t go very far. Instead it died quite soon: somebody commented the post and ranted about his Connect experience. I’m blogging again about Connect, but I don’t want to start a personal war against Microsoft: today I want to look at what happened from a new perspective. What I find disappointing is a different aspect of the reactions from the SQL Server community, which made me think that maybe it’s not only Connect’s fault. [Read More]