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  • Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver

    Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver is the big news. My hometown and I’m excited. And tickets are cheaper. $799 now, which includes a training day as well. Talk to your boss, get the conference ticket approved. It’s learning, it’s retention, it’s a chance to get others to help you solve problems and deal with the way AI is changing our world. See you in the mile high city…


  • PASS Data Community Summit 2026

    Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after pre-cons on Monday). It’s a smaller event, but fun and more intimate. A few long time attendees noticed the atmosphere was different, but nice. This reminds me of the earlier events in the 2000s, contained, everyone seeing each other multiple times. Connect. Share. Learn. To me, one of the best things is the connections. I had the chance to see a lot of…


  • Republish: Cloud Concerns

    The world of cloud computing has changed a lot in 14 years. I’m at the PASS Summit, and buried with a variety of things today, so you get to re-read Cloud Concerns. What’s different in the cloud for you today?


  • Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204

    This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and also has agreed to start taking over some of the T-SQL Tuesday management. Mike Walsh and StraightPath Solutions will steward this, but Jeff will likely do a lot of the day-to-day (or month-to-month). In any case, I hope you support him and more of you participate, even if it’s a post on LinkedIn. This month Jeff asks about blogs, which is kind of…


  • PASS Summit Week

    This week is the annual PASS Data Community Summit. I’m up in Seattle, getting ready for the event. This year the conference is a little shorter. Rather than being gone from home for an entire week, I arrived last night and am heading home on Thursday. That’s nice as I’ve been gone a lot this year. My fun with travel post looked at my travel and contained a lot of blue lines in 2026. In any case,…


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