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What useful things did I do last week? I listened to a RunAs Radio podcast on "ReverseDSC" with Richard Campbell and Nik Charlebois I listened to a RunAs Radio podcast on "Making Work Visible" with Richard Campbell and Dominica DeGrandis I watched the SQLPASS Summit 2015 talk "Enterprise Auditing with SQL Server Audit" with Colleen Morrow. I caught up with Kalen Delaney's Weekly Webinar , up to and including Episode 11. These cover a variety of technical details on how SQL Server stores data and are probably too gory for newbs. I have been working on these talks for several months, on and off. Much of the material is familiar to me, but it's easy to forget details here and there. I did learn more about the implantation details of row vs. page compression. I watched Advanced PowerShell Module Development with Visual Studio Code with David Wilson, again. I've never gotten P...

I've been a member of PASS for so long that I'm no longer sure when I actually joined. I attended PASS Summit 2004, which was in Orlando, FL. I must have been a member before then. I started with SQL Server in 1998. I feel like someone from the old, long-dead Swynk.com SQL Server email list suggested that I join. (For the uninitiated, membership in PASS is free and you get access to talks from past PASS Summit events. Even though the talks are two or three years old, many subjects are still relevant and many people are still dealing with older versions of SQL Server. In short, you can get good information from some of the best-educated SQL Server experts in the world.) I don't go to as many of the monthly meetings in Malvern, PA as I used to. The main reason for this is that there are many good online venues that provide good talks on SQL Server. My three favorite venues are: PASS YouTube (many PASS 'Virtual Groups' will publish monthly talks here.) SQLBITS...