Honored To Be Speaking At PASS Summit 2012

PASS Summit is the largest and perhaps the most influential SQL Server event in the world with more than 170 technical sessions and drawing 3 to 4 thousand people every year. Why I am telling you all this? Because, I was greatly surprised when I learned 2 of my submissions were selected, one of them as alternate,  for this year PASS Summit in Seattle.This is my first time presenting at such great event and I fell both excited and honored about making the list of speakers.
A big thanks goes to ,my employer Intellinet for sponsoring my trip there and to my team and coworkers for helping me refining the abstracts. Thanks Melissa, Leo and Laura!

TRACK	Session	Tags
BI Platform Architecture, Development & Administration	Waiter, There's a Fly In My Data	Accepted
BI Platform Architecture, Development & Administration	SSIS 2012: What is in that project?	Alternate*

*Alternate means that it has been accepted as an alternate session in the event that an accepted session is declined or canceled. 

Browse the full schedule in PASS website. I hope you can attend.
I will see you in Seattle!

Help PASS Choosing the SQLRally Logo

PASS is in the last stage of selecting a logo for SQLRally. Right now, they are down to the 3 finalists and will be selecting the one the highest number of votes. Here is my favorite one.

Vote for the new PASS SQLRally Logo! here


And if you are wondering what the SQLRally is, then you should know it is a regional SQL Server conference to be held every year. I think about it as the younger sibling of the annual PASS Summit.
I personally love the way they are allowing the community to drive the process. Kudos to the team.

PASS Summit 2010: My Sessions Have Been Considered!

That means my sessions were not accepted. :-(

Yesterday, I received an email with “PASS Summit 2010 - Program Session Confirmation” as the subject, and I almost jumped out of excitement when I first read my sessions were “Considered”. However, my happiness lasted just few seconds as I realized that ‘Considered’ really meant: