So, PASS 2007 is over. It has been done for the past week now, and I have been piecing together my thoughts since then. I started thinking about PASS in general, then I started to focus on specific items such as “what do I get for my membership fee”? In the past week I have … Read more
Today I made my first presentation at a PASS conference. The whole process took months to come together. I started back in the Spring putting together my abstract and was fortunate to be accepted. After it was accepted, I went to work putting it all together. I prepared my talk and presented to a couple … Read more
During the PASS conference this year I was informed by more than a few colleagues that their companies have MOM 2005, but they are not able to utilize it for their own needs. Why? Why would they not be allowed to work with the MOM administrator to customize MOM for even just a few things? … Read more
Today is the last day for the conference, and I am quite tired. To make things worse, my flight out of here is at 6:30AM tomorrow morning. Ick. I checked on some options to leave earlier, but none were viable. So, it looks like I will head to dinner with some friends, stay up most … Read more
Today was another good day, full of good content as well as lots of networking opportunities. After the keynote session, I headed over to a talk about execution plan cache analysis. There was lots of good information presented regarding the new dynamic management views in SS2K5. Some cool tricks were shown as well, including how … Read more
Today the conference is in full swing. There seems to be a little less energy this year, I am not certain why that might be the case. Perhaps it was the late night karaoke that has me a little worn down. The keynote session was informative as we were introduced to some of the new … Read more
