Blogging from the PASS Summit : Nov. 8th keynote
November 8th, 2012
Blogging from the PASS Summit : Nov. 8th keynote
November 8th, 2012
 
 

Douglas McDowell talks about day 1, the video montage featuring folks here from all over the world, and the fiscal year. The important point I took from this is that PASS is a not-for-profit committed to investing its revenue and other resources back into the community. They are hiring another full-time community evangelist, adding IT resources for online resources like the SQLSaturday site, and further expanding global efforts.

He introduces the new board members: Wendy Pastrick, James Rowland-Jones, and Sri Sridharan. They will serve their current term through the 2014 calendar year.

Tom LaRock comes on stage talking about the history of PASS and its community of volunteers. He announces this year's PASSion award winner: Jen Stirrup. Amy Lewis and Jesus Gil were honorable mentions. Congrats to all! 

Registration is open for PASS Summit 2013, October 15-18 in Charlotte, NC. Home of SQL Sentry. 🙂

Quentin Clark talks about the analysis of analysis (e.g. prediction models for election results that were very accurate), and deeper analytics being implemented around hotel guests and retail customers. Then we go into a data lifecycle story – a demo complete with movies and ZoomIt (but perhaps too much of the former and not enough of the latter). Basically the story is that Microsoft is making it possible to pull in data from disparate sources and use it together seamlessly for both review and for predictive analysis. Which is a lot more complicated than it sounds.
 

By: Aaron Bertrand

I am a passionate technologist with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. I am a long-time Microsoft MVP, write at Simple Talk, SQLPerformance, and MSSQLTips, and have had the honor of speaking at more conferences than I can remember. In non-tech life, I am a husband, a father of two, a huge hockey and football fan, and my pronouns are he/him.