24 Hours of PASS
The Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) is a great organization for SQL Server professionals, both DBAs and developers. Membership is free, and gets you many nice benefits for learning SQL Server and getting involved with the community. And the annual PASS Community Summits are some of the best conferences for getting deep into SQL Server with both Microsoft SQL Server team members and third party experts. (I'll be speaking again at this year's US summit the week of 2 November.)
This week, PASS is sponsoring 24 Hours of PASS, a virtual conference that will have 24 consecutive, hour long sessions. I'll be doing a session on SQL Server 2008 security at 21:00 GMT on Wednesday (2 PM PDT)--I hope I have that right! Other speakers are Adam Machanic, Andrew Kelly, Allen White, Artemakis Artemiou, Brad McGehee, Brian Knight, Dejan Sarka, Don Vilen, Erik Veerman, Gail Shaw, Grant Fritchey, Greg Low, Jacob Sebastian, Jessica Moss, John Welch, Kalen Delaney, Kevin Kline, Louis Davidson, Paul Nielsen, Peter Myers, Peter Ward, Simon Sabin, Steve Jones, Thomas Grohser. This is a truly international group!
Best of all, the sessions will be available later for viewing any time. So even if you're interested in a session that's at 2 AM where you are, you don't have to lose sleep.
I hope to see you there!
Don