Stay connected with PASS BLOG

Sign up for a free PASS membership
Get PASS news, special offers, access to hundreds of hours of SQL Server training, Virtual Chapter webcasts, and more. 

• Cast Your Ballot in the 2010 PASS Elections
• Blog: Chalk Talk Call for Speakers Open
• Only 1 Week to 24 Hours of PASS--Register Now!
• 4 New "Mission-Critical" Pre/Post-Cons Added to Summit
• Results in for PASS Summit Community Choice Sessions

• PASS SQLSaturday, Raleigh, NC, September 18
• PASS SQLSaturday, East Iowa, September 18
• PASS SQLSaturday, San Diego, September 18
• PASS SQLSaturday, Denver, September 25

See All Events See PASS Summit 2010

• Performance Virtual Chapter: Introduction to SQL Server Statistics, Sept 7
• Data Warehousing/BI Virtual Chapter: Data Mining with PowerPivot 2010, Sept 8
• DBA Virtual Chapter: Designing High Performance I/O for SQL Server, Sept 8
• AppDev Virtual Chapter: Indexes and Other Free Performance Boosts, Sept 14
• Data Warehousing/BI VC: Building your 1st Performance Point Dashboard in Sharepoint 2010, Sept 14
• 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview, September 15-16
• Data Warehousing/BI VC: Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution, Sept 20
• Virtualization Virtual Chapter: Storage and Virtualization for the DBA, September 23

See All Events

• ProfDev Q&A: An Interview with New Chapter Founder Nigel Sammy
• Find a PASS Chapter Near You: Worldwide Chapter Listing
• Speaking at a Chapter? Online Speaker Resources
• Chapter Leaders Only: Chapter Leader Resources

• Blog Post: Realizing the Promise of Cloud Computing with Microsoft
• SQL Server Standard article: Loading Spatial Data the SSIS Way, by Michael Coles (login required)
• ProfDev Q&A: Interview with Steve Jones
• Tech article: Can Integrity Be Learned? By Kevin Kline
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Hosted Trial: Free Virtual Labs

Visit the Learning Center