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Woohoo, we’ve made it to the second day of PASS Summit!  After an awesome first day running from the keynote, to my first session with Denise McInerney, late for my executive meeting with less than a dozen other attendees with Rohan Kumar and sessions/networking/parties, here we are for the second day of PASS Summit keynote!

Info and Awards

We started the day with Wendy Pastrick to tell us about the financial status of PASS and she decided to make sure we were awake and serenade us with a lovely song first!

Tim Ford was next to talk about what the community and PASS means to all of us.  He announced the PASSion award, which was given to my wonderful friend and co-presenter in webinars and fellow Linux Learning Pathway sessions, Hamish Watson!  Congratulations, Hamish!!

I’m getting ready for SQL Saturday Oregon this weekend, (taking the train up from Eugene to Portland…) but its about time I talked about the exhilarating and exhausting event we call PASS Summit.

This year I was lucky enough to be chosen as a speaker and a blogger.  Bloggers at the conference get the opportunity to sit in special zones during keynotes and we write about the event.  We also get special access to Microsoft PMs, (although I may be the only one who works for Microsoft attending vs. running them… :)) I look forward to all of the blogger perks and recommend it to anyone who has a passion for writing about our community and tech.

You know how busy I am by the amount of time I DON’T blog and yes, it’s been over a month.  I think that’s the longest I haven’t blogged in YEARS.

24 HOP and Facebook Live

I just finished my 24HOP, (24 hrs of PASS) session back on September 9th, the PASS Facebook Live session this last Monday and I’m thrilled with these virtual events each year I get the chance to participate. If you’re not familiar with 24HOP, its a preview of some of the sessions at Summit, the annual tech conference from PASS.  Twenty four presenters are chosen to offer a preview on their talk.  As mine is on Linux Scripting, I decided to do a tips and tricks session that had three goals:

Hello from Atlanta, where I’m preparing for tomorrow’s SQL Saturday and arrived for the great news announcing this year’s PASS Summit 2019 Learning Pathways.

These sessions are two or more sessions to provide a more complete learning opportunity for the attendee.  I’ll be part of two of these pathways:

Tomorrow #0000ff;">#0000ff;" href="http://wwww.pass.org/default.aspx">Pass is sponsoring a Linux Marathon for all the SQL DBAs getting ready to go big with Linux.