It’s that time of year again when the anticipation of the upcoming PASS Summit begins to build. My first attempt at using the Summit Schedule Builder by selecting the various topics of interest to me resulted in extreme overbooking. Sigh… Now I really have to do some serious thinking about which sessions I want to [...]

When I was a kid, living in New Jersey at the time, my dad was very involved in sports car racing and motorcycles. Our garage was never used to actually park a car that we rode around in. Instead, it was strewn with all kinds of half-built engines and body parts. Car body parts, that [...]

Another PASS Summit has come and gone, and a good time was had by all. The song at the opening keynote sums up the experience quite nicely, “Simply the Best.” My favorite quote of the week comes from Andy Leonard (blog| twitter) who tweeted on November 9, “#sqlpass is a family reunion. :{>” Oddly enough, [...]

Life as an independent consultant is interesting and challenging, but it gets a little lonely in the sense that you don’t spend a lot of time with your industry peers. That’s why I enjoy getting out to conferences each year. I always run into people I know and admire and get to pick their brains on [...]