Comments on: Why are you going to the PASS Summit? http://facility9.com/2009/06/22/why-are-you-going-to-the-pass-summit Jeremiah Peschka's ruminations on sql, ruby, c# and other things Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:28:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brent Ozar http://facility9.com/2009/06/22/why-are-you-going-to-the-pass-summit#comment-629 Brent Ozar Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:49:17 +0000 http://facility9.com/?p=690#comment-629 Yeah, amen to this. If I add everything up, I get more out of the interactions than sitting in the presentations. There's just so many cool people doing cool stuff. And you're 100% right about picking sessions that challenge you. Some of the speakers at PASS - Donald Farmer and Jimmy May both come to mind - take really complex topics and boil them down to very elegant presentations. You can't get easy-to-follow info easily about partition alignment or data mining out in the real world, and these guys do a great job of making those intricate topics simpler. Yeah, amen to this. If I add everything up, I get more out of the interactions than sitting in the presentations. There’s just so many cool people doing cool stuff.

And you’re 100% right about picking sessions that challenge you. Some of the speakers at PASS – Donald Farmer and Jimmy May both come to mind – take really complex topics and boil them down to very elegant presentations. You can’t get easy-to-follow info easily about partition alignment or data mining out in the real world, and these guys do a great job of making those intricate topics simpler.

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