• Mbourgon everywhere
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      179 months ago

      SQL Server. Dozens of free events a year, one in most major cities, 20-40 Sessions/Presenters, token payment that covers lunch (and ensures attendance).

      The main event (PASS Summit) is held yearly, has 150 to 200 presentations/presenters, and presenters admission is free. It’s a community event and it’s freaking fantastic.

      • Adam Kempenich ✅
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        249 months ago

        What I’m hearing is that you’re not NOT in the magicians guild…

        • Mbourgon everywhere
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          169 months ago

          Misdirection is one of the hallmarks of a magician, is it not?

          • Mbourgon everywhere
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            149 months ago

            Are you kidding me? Why did the performance on this query start sucking this morning. Was it statistics? Plan recompilation? Plan sniffing? Bad plan? Somebody else running queries on the same spindles? Oh, it’s certainly magic.

        • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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          39 months ago

          Or are they? Look behind your ear - tada! A magicians guild membership card with their name on it!

        • JJROKCZ
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          39 months ago

          If they’re good at SQL, it’s magic yeah

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        I guess is more data oriented than SQL Server alone no? Like I don’t quite have in my mind what kind of presentations would be donde if it was just SQL Server, apart from presenting new features or similar… But that would be mostly exclusive to Microsoft and associates.

        • Mbourgon everywhere
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          29 months ago

          It’s on everything from how to help your career (mentoring, presenting , etc), to learning tips for Azure to solving problems to using advanced feature. Mine were on WMI collection for SQL Server servers (and how to tweak power settings, etc) and Event Notifications to get all code changes, errors, etc. I have seen presentations on R, Python, MySQL, but also seminars on Service Broker, AWS, index tuning, and running MSSQL in Kubernetes or on Linux.