{"id":774,"date":"2009-11-01T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Busy-week-coming-up-at-the-2009-PASS-Summit.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-01T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:06:21","slug":"busy-week-coming-up-at-the-2009-pass-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/busy-week-coming-up-at-the-2009-pass-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy week coming up at the 2009 PASS Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">It&#39;s PASS time again in Seattle and we&#39;ve got a busy week lined up. It&#39;s going to be a cavalcade of meeting new people, and in the best tradition of conferences past, I&#39;ll do my best to&nbsp;remember most people&#39;s names who I met last year but please don&#39;t be offended if I don&#39;t, give me a prod in the right direction :-) Best bet for having me remember is to have something brightly colored on show: Jason has vivid&nbsp;red hair, Denny has partly bright blue hair, Brent has big green fists, and Thomas has&nbsp;off-color blog posts. My brightly-colored attire will include a tall blonde woman next to me most of the time.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Here&#39;s what we have definitely on the schedule so far:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Our pre-con workshop on Monday<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Playing in the welcome reception Quiz Bowl Monday night<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Birds of a Feather lunch on Tuesday. I&#39;m doing &quot;Chow Down on Corruption&quot; and Kimberly&#39;s doing &quot;Kimberly Tripp Covers Indexes (and Lunch)&quot;. Our tables are going to be next to each other so that we can heckle. My table will at least have to make it known that our table title is cleverer than hers.<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">My Wednesday morning Spotlight session on Understanding Logging and Recovery<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Kimberly&#39;s Wednesday afternoon Spotlight session on Covering Indexes<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Our post-con workshop on Friday<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And some parties and other frivolity thrown in.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Hope to see you there!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">PS Seems like #sqlpass is the Twitter tag for the conference, prepare to be overwhelmed!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">PPS If you&#39;re speaking for the first time at PASS, checkout my long Valentine&#39;s Day blog post about how to present: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/public-speaking-a-primer\/\">Public Speaking: A Primer<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s PASS time again in Seattle and we&#39;ve got a busy week lined up. 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