Comments on: PASS Summit and SQL Connections http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/08/25/pass-summit-vs-sql-connections/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:49:48 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Wood http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/08/25/pass-summit-vs-sql-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-4177 Chris Wood Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:54:37 +0000 http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/?p=959#comment-4177 Colin, I found Connections was more for the developer than like me a DBA. PASS is the place to go if you are a DBA who only dabbles with code. Chris Colin,

I found Connections was more for the developer than like me a DBA. PASS is the place to go if you are a DBA who only dabbles with code.

Chris

]]> By: Brent Ozar http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/08/25/pass-summit-vs-sql-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-4170 Brent Ozar Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:30:04 +0000 http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/?p=959#comment-4170 My guess - and this is just a guess - is that SQL Connections doesn't have the grassroots organization that PASS does. PASS, being a nonprofit group, gets a ton of free labor. The regional PASS folks have a vested interest in promoting the PASS Summit, and they get discounts on their costs. SQL Connections isn't a volunteer organization, so they don't have the volunteer army to build buzz. Pretty much any for-profit organization faces that challenge. My guess – and this is just a guess – is that SQL Connections doesn’t have the grassroots organization that PASS does. PASS, being a nonprofit group, gets a ton of free labor. The regional PASS folks have a vested interest in promoting the PASS Summit, and they get discounts on their costs. SQL Connections isn’t a volunteer organization, so they don’t have the volunteer army to build buzz. Pretty much any for-profit organization faces that challenge.

]]> By: Colin Stasiuk http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/08/25/pass-summit-vs-sql-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-4169 Colin Stasiuk Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:05:39 +0000 http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/?p=959#comment-4169 I haven't had the pleasure yet of hearing Grant speak or seeing him present...something I hope to rectify at the Summit this year with his presentation on Best Practices for working with Execution Plans (http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/Agenda/SpotlightSessions/BestPracticesforWorkingWithExecutionPlans.aspx) This was definitely NOT an all encompassing list by any means (so definitely no disrespect was intended if I missed some key people)... just mearly a highlight list of people I've heard speak in the past either live or via webcasts, etc. Thanks for reading KBK!! I haven’t had the pleasure yet of hearing Grant speak or seeing him present…something I hope to rectify at the Summit this year with his presentation on Best Practices for working with Execution Plans (http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/Agenda/SpotlightSessions/BestPracticesforWorkingWithExecutionPlans.aspx)

This was definitely NOT an all encompassing list by any means (so definitely no disrespect was intended if I missed some key people)… just mearly a highlight list of people I’ve heard speak in the past either live or via webcasts, etc.

Thanks for reading KBK!!

]]> By: K. Brian Kelley http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/08/25/pass-summit-vs-sql-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-4168 K. Brian Kelley Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:56:31 +0000 http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/?p=959#comment-4168 I so don't belong in that list. Seriously. And you missed Grant. He does. I so don’t belong in that list. Seriously. And you missed Grant. He does.

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