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In my prior post, I talked about how all signs pointed to it being Closing Time for PASS. Since then, PASS has announced the organization will “cease its operations and pursue dissolution.” TL;DR; The short version is that on 15 January, 2021, PASS will shut …
Continue readingA reflection on PASS, its members, and the organization’s future after a year of public criticism.
Continue readingEarlier this year, I published the first crack at a Data Blogger Resource Kit. When I initially created the kit, I wasn’t quite sure exactly what direction I would go with it. In the months since, I’ve started to get a better idea of where I want to go, and …
Continue readingWhen I started out blogging 5 years ago, there was a lot that I didn’t know. I figured things out as I went. The FreeCon helped give me a giant push in the right direction. But there are some things that nobody ever tells you. While sitting in a coffee shop I …
Continue readingI won’t be at PASS Summit this year, but that doesn’t mean I can’t give advice to those who will be there. I got an email asking for advice for Summit First-Timers, and after sending over the list of tips, I figured I’d write a blog post on the topic while I …
Continue readingBack in August, Allan Hirt (blog) tweeted: Allan Hirt@SQLHA twitter In the roughly 25 years of I have been in IT, we’re still dealing with the same problems. 6:23 PM · Aug 30, 2016 I had a slow day, so I generated a storm of responses. This month’s T-SQL …
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