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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge
We are at it again. SQLSaturday in Baton Rouge, LA Saturday July 29th at the LSU Business Education building – SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2023 (#1060). We are first very thankful to the sponsors. They seem to always…
Read More »PASS Virtual Summit 2020 – Nov 9-13
This summit offers 2 days of pre-conference sessions plus 3 days or regular (75 minute or 2 hour) sessions. It runs through all time zones and can be watched for 1 year. This is no pressure to figure…
Read More »PASS Summit Day 1 Keynote
Again, the PASS Summit is blessed to have Rohan Kumar speaking on Day 1 of the Virtual Summit 2020. Rohan is the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data at Microsoft and is a favorite at PASS Summit. I…
Read More »PASS Virtual Summit 2020 – More General Sessions
The General Session initial (or community selected) list has been released. These are the sessions submitted by speakers from across the world. The selected list is the best possible variety of sessions that the PASS Program Community feels…
Read More »PASS 2020 Virtual Summit – Microsoft Premium Sponsor
Toward the end of June, PASS announced Microsoft as a Premium sponsor for the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit. What does that mean? Here are 3 things: 1. 1:1 virtual meetings – Microsoft Azure Data Clinic. Having Microsoft at…
Read More »PASS Summit 2020 Going Virtual
Apparently due to Covid-19, the PASS Summit 2020 will not be live in Houston, TX. This is disappointing but necessary because of circumstances. Many were interested to see the affects of moving the Summit to another city. So,…
Read More »PASS Summit 2020 – Pre-conference Sessions
One of the great features of the PASS Summit is the pre-conference sessions. These are day long sessions on a specific topic. Occurrences are on the Monday and Tuesday of the conference. Monday has nine sessions and Tuesday…
Read More »Disabling Download Icon From Power BI Report Server
I read that we can remove the Download button from the main menu of Power BI Reporting Services. This is needed to clean up the Portal and remove anything that can be confusing to users. But, the only…
Read More »PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part II
The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation about trying to mentor developers at work places about how to write good T-SQL. It was interesting to…
Read More »PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part 1
Today’s keynote was by David Dewitt. He did an excellent job explaining the architecture behind various Cloud Data Warehouse offerings. It was nice to get an explanation of the behind the scenes node and disk usage. One announcement…
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