I don’t know how to describe how awesome and amazing my first PASS Summit was. I’m normally verbose, but don’t know where to start. Perhaps “a picture is worth a thousand words” will help me here. Monday, October 10 Arriving at PASS Summit registration. I was so excited I could barely walk – I wanted to run everywhere. Registering, in the speaker line. #sqlphotowalk ![][3] ![][4] ![][5] Eating lunch at a Russian restaurant Buck Woody recommended.

SQL Saturday #92 in Portland, OR, kicked off an epic eight-day speaking and running trip for me. I was going to this event, to run a half marathon, and to PASS Summit. It was a great start to my week. On Friday, I attended the speaker dinner and had the pleasure of seeing many old friends, and the joy of meeting new friends like Buck Woody, Robert Davis, Harry Chandra, Arnie Rowland, and Bill Fellows.

I noticed Kevin Mitnick latest book Ghost In The Wires was released, since I already read The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion I decided to give Ghost in the wires a try. Ghost in the wires is the first time that Kevin Mitnick tells the story of how he did his hacking and phreaking and how he was eventually caught, caught with the help of another hacker nonetheless.

It’s time to put some of my random thoughts to paper or in a blogpost anyway. I was never accused of having coherent thoughts, so beware of the dog. I’ve been to a few conferences in the past year or so. The last one being about Agile and .net. Most of these conferences seem to me about learning and hero worshiping. No, not open hero worshiping were people will fall to their knees for a certain person but more the introverted kind.

Ted Kummert, Senior VP, Business Platform Division announced at the PASS Summit 2011 Day One Keynote that the next version of SQL Server will be named SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2012 will be released in the first quarter of 2012 They are a variety of clients already running in production with CTP 3 I am pretty excited about SQL Server 2012, there are a lot of nice things that I will be able to utilize

Introduction Their are a number of new features for the next version of VB.Net. I’m guessing that next version will be called VB11 but it could be VB10.5, who knows. The least you can say is that the number of new features is not that impressive. According to the official MSDN website Async Feature Call Hierarchy Global Keyword in Namespace Statements Iterators Async Async/Await has been around in the form of a CTP for a while, it was a separate project up till now.

Someone posted an Ada Lovelace day message in our forum. Here is what it said This Ada Lovelace Day on October 7, share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today. Write a blog post, record a podcast, film a video, draw a comic, or pick any other way to talk about the women who have been guiding lights in your life.

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 has been released. be aware that you can’t use this for SQL Server 2008 R2 A couple of enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 are : _ Enhanced upgrade experience from previous versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008 SP3. In addition, we have increased the performance & reliability of the setup experience. In SQL Server Integration Services logs will now show the total number of rows sent in Data Flows.

“I see a ton of parallelism in my execution plan I’m tuning. I read something online and I’m going to alter the value in Maximum Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP) so they go away.” This is a very common problem and a very common solution that is found on the great wide internet of SQL and Google search results. The first thing is, don’t blanket change MAXDOP simply because you read it somewhere or someone says they did it or always do it.

Something that came out of a recent session I gave at SQL Saturday in Iowa was a discussion on views and the Meta Data that comes along with them. The discussion came about when I had commented, during a session that views were a pain spot for me. Misuse by means of over using them as well as seeing over the years, very little attention to the Meta Data of them.