I just wanted to take a quick moment to let everyone know that yesterday I received the great news that I will be speaking about PowerShell at the 2010 PASS Summit! Here’s what my session will be: The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for the Busy DBA You’ve heard it said, “If you have to [...]
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PASS Summit 2010 Graphics
For those of you that need to get your hands on the graphics for the 2010 PASS Summit in Seattle here they are:
Early July 2010 PASS VC Presentations
Loops, Lookups and Splits: SSIS Beyond the Basics Managing Teams Why Should I use Stored Procedures? _____________________________________________________________ Loops, Lookups and Splits: SSIS Beyond the Basics July 13th 9:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Presenter: Tim Mitchell In this session, we’ll explore some of the useful tasks and data flow components of SSIS. Join in as we [...]
Late June 2010 PASS VC Presentations
_____________________________________________________________ ETL with PowerShell June 22nd 9:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Presenter: Chad Miller In this session we will look at performing common data loading tasks with PowerShell. A basic understanding of PowerShell is helpful, but not necessary. Specific topics covered include importing structured files, XML, WMI objects and ADO.NET data sources. Chad Miller [...]
Early May PASS VC Presentations
Next week is the 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008 R2 PASS but before we get there the Virtual Chapters of PASS have some free training on tap for us: _____________________________________________________________ “You Got XML In My Database? What’s Up With That?” May 11th 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Add to Calendar Presenter: Stuart Ainsworth A brief [...]
Help Us Build a Map of All PASS Chapters
Hey Folks, Have you ever been about to take a trip somewhere new and thought ‘hey, I wonder if I’m close enough to a PASS Chapter to catch their meeting’ or for speakers, ‘if I can speak at their meeting’? Well guess what, I’ve had the same question. So I went to the PASS website [...]
PASS Virtual Chapters Late April Presentations
To finish up the month of April we’ve got sessions from AppDev and DBA and I’m even including one from PASS on ‘Intro to Speaking At PASS’. The AppDev group will be hosting the SARGability session twice, once for people having Lunch in Australia or Dinner in L.A. and once as a Late lunch for [...]
Speaking at the Virtualization VC of PASS Today
PASS in online today and we’ve got a great presentation for you. We’ve teamed up with Dushyanth Nataraj from VMware to put together a session that should help DBAs get their feet wet with using some of the common features/strengths of Virtualization. I’ll be doing a short presentation on Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager [...]
PASS Virtual Chapters Early April Presentations
In April we’ve got free training coming your way from the usual suspects of the PASS VCs (AppDev, DBA, and Virtualization). Here’s what’s on tap in chronological order: _____________________________________________________________ Using Virtualization to Solve Common Dev/QA Environment Problems April 7th Noon Eastern (GMT -4) Presenters: Aaron Nelson & Dushyanth Nataraj Isn’t two always better than one? [...]

