Another installment of 24 Hours of PASS is coming up next week on May 3-4! This semiannual event features 24 back-to-back webinars on a certain theme. The theme this time is data security and data quality, a subject I’m passionate about. I’m happy to say that I get to present two sessions during this spring’s […]
SQLSaturday Madison – April 7-8
The first event I ever spoke at was SQLSaturday in Madison, Wisconsin, back in 2012. I was petrified – would anyone want to hear someone talk about normalization? Especially when that someone was pretty much unknown outside of his city? Long story short, yes, they did. I didn’t have a large crowd, but it was […]
An open letter to the PASS community
PASS is our community. It may sound a little cliche in this time of election propaganda in the US, but it’s absolutely true. PASS is our community. It’s made up of data professionals from around the globe. All of us are volunteers, from the attendees to the speakers, from the chapter leaders to those that […]
Security VC Webinar: TLS 1.2 and SQL Server
The PASS Security virtual chapter hosted a great webinar on Thursday. Amit Banerjee from Microsoft’s SQL Server Tiger Team (b|t) spoke about upgrading our SQL Server instances to use TLS 1.2, including many pitfalls that are frequently encountered. We’re all familiar with SSL – we use it every day without even thinking about it. It’s […]
Save the date: SQLSaturday Iowa City
Q: True or False – Iowa has one of the world’s longest-running SQL Server conferences? A: True! SQLSaturday #19 was held in the fall of 2009 in Iowa City. We’re one of only a handful of chapters to host an event every year since then. We’ll hold our eighth SQLSaturday conference on June 10-11, 2016, in Iowa City. […]