Professional Association of SQL Server Summit - Notes on the Keynote from Day 2 by Kendra Little

1. PASS Summit
2018 – Day 2
Keynote
Kendra Little

2. Wendy Pastrick

3. Wendy Pastrick
185 countries, 300K members in PASS
40K virtual group members
Wendy sang her way through the budget recap – OH
MY WORD THIS WAS AMAZING

4. Tim Ford

5. Tim Ford
40% First Timers at Summit this year
My own commentary:
Wow, that’s a huge source of income
Maybe a sign of repeat attendance falling off? I’m not
sure how this tracks over the years.

6. Mark Souza, Ron Soukup, Paul Flessner,
Ted Kummert, Rohan Kumar

7. Mark Souza, Ron Soukup, Paul Flessner,
Ted Kummert, Rohan Kumar
We have a panel of corporate VPs talking about the history
of SQL Server
My own observations:
We haven’t had any women at this level of leadership at
Microsoft in the history of the data platform
We need heroes on stage who reflect the new Microsoft
culture and empower people across races and genders
This session was a big miss for me

8. Raghu Ramakrishnan

9. Raghu Ramakrishnan
The changing landscape of data
Elastic compute and storage
Data is exploding, and the complexity is as well
Perennial problems:
Size of data ops are slow, long recovery is painful
Scale with costs reflecting workload

10. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Desire to bring together access to multiple systems
SQL Hyperscale – originally named Socrates
He just walked around asking queries

11. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Themes:
Scale systems separately
Separate quorum from compute and data to simply
scale
Design tiered caching to mask network latencies
Interesting talk, but worth watching if you want the
details – not sure I can recap this

12. And I’m out!
This was a disappointing keynote for me
My main takeaway from today is that PASS hasn’t
tapped into the exciting emerging Microsoft culture
And PASS isn’t thinking about putting role models on
stage each day for people across their membership
And what is a keynote about, other than inspiring?