So my pass summit didn’t go exactly as I had hoped. On Monday afternoon I ate something that didn’t agree with me at all and spent most of Tuesday very sick from it. I made it to some of the volunteer sessions but missed out on a lot. For those of you that I’m the regional mentor for I apologize I wish I could have made it to more of it. I also missed the opening reception and the Sql Server Central party which was a big bummer.
Wednesday I started to feel better but was pretty weak and didn’t dare eat much. I was very happy to accept the 2006 PASSion award Wednesday morning before the Keynote. It was a great honor thank you to all in the membership committee that voted for me. Thank you also to Rushabh who nominated me.
Of the sessions I went to during the Summit I really liked Kalen Delaney’s Session on Metadata in 2005. This was helpful to learn where 2005 is storing some of it’s information. Andrew Kelly had an great presentation on monitoring sql server and things to look for when your monitoring. I spoke with him later for a podcast also on some suggestions he had for raid and hardware configuration. I consider Andrew one of the best on the topics for hardware and raid configurations so It was great to hear him talk about it.
Overall once again I had a great PASS Conference I think for me it’s been more and more transitioned into the networking aspect of the conference and less just about the sessions. If you attend a PASS conference, your local chapter, or a Regional Event just remember to speak up and talk to the person next to you. That’s what it’s all about making those connections will serve you very well over the next years. Hell maybe you’ll even meet new friends that you’ll actually miss because you only get to see them once a year at PASS. Then again you’ll probably meet a few that you wonder if you shouldn’t return to PASS in case they are there.
Volunteer anytime you get a chance for PASS it’s a great organization and it’s all about helping people.
In case I don’t blog again before Thursday. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Pat