PASS Hosts New Com.PASS Content Feeds, Driving Top Business Intelligence Information from Respected Websites to Your Desktop

Feeds Draw from Trusted Sites, including PASS, BIDN.com, Microsoft.com, SQLServerCentral.com, & SSWUG.org

CHICAGO, Illinois – May 4, 2010 – The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is pleased to announce Com.PASS, a new set of content feeds that provide Microsoft SQL Server and business intelligence professionals broad access to quality information across respected community Websites.

Conceived by Brian Knight of pragmaticworks.com and developed in collaboration with PASS President Rushabh Mehta, SQLServerCentral.com Editor Steve Jones, and sswug.org Founder and Managing Editor Stephen Wynkoop, the Com.PASS feed is based on a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that uses keywords to scrub selected community Websites for relevant content.

“Com.PASS is about making it faster and easier for busy SQL Server pros to find the information they need to do their jobs better,” notes PASS’s Rushabh Mehta. “You can quickly get lost in the sea of links and information available on the Web. Com.PASS feeds you content in your target topic areas from sites that you can trust.”

Initially focusing on BI content, Com.PASS currently includes five feeds:

• Com.PASS.BI, an all-up business intelligence feed for content across the Microsoft SQL Server and Office stacks
• Com.PASS.SSAS, for SQL Server Analysis Services content
• Com.PASS.SSIS, for SQL Server Integration Services content
• Com.PASS.SSRS, for SQL Server Reporting Services content
• Com.PASS, which combines all the feeds

You just click a feed to add it to your RSS reader. You can also add one or more of the feeds directly to a document or Website.

The publicly available Com.PASS feeds currently draw from the following Websites:

• PASS (including its full blog directory) 
• BIDN.com 
• Microsoft.com 
• SQLServerCentral.com 
• SSWUG.org

In addition, you can suggest sites to be added or deleted from Com.PASS as well as new feeds you’d like to see.

“SQLServerCentral has always strived to make information available to learn more about SQL Server,” says SQLServerCentral.com’s Steve Jones. “The new Com.PASS feed allows us to collaborate with other great sources and continue in this tradition.”

For more information and to get started with Com.PASS, see http://www.sqlpass.org/ComPASS.

About PASS
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an independent, not-for-profit association dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting the Microsoft SQL Server community. From local user groups and virtual chapters to Webcasts and the annual PASS Summit—the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals in the world—PASS enables knowledge sharing, in-depth learning, access to the Microsoft SQL Server team, and the ability to influence the direction of SQL Server technologies. The PASS mission is to empower the global SQL Server community to connect, share, and learn. For more information about PASS and the benefits of becoming a member, visit the PASS Website at http://www.sqlpass.org.

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