Dear PASS, Don’t BI us to Death

April 10, 2009 · Posted in SQL Server 

I hope I do not offend my BI brethren. I am just stating the facts from the survey and the fact that that the abstract submission deadline has been extended due to fact that the BI conference has been canceled.

My request is that the number of sessions per track reflect the survey results. I hope that the BI track is not inflated to the point that it cuts out sessions from other tracks.

Here are some fact from the survey which can be found here.

  • 89% of the people surveyed are DBA’s or DBD’s
  • 27% of the people surveyed are BI professionals.
  • 69% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the DBA track. 58% want advanced topics.
  • 68% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the database dev track. 59% want advanced topics.
  • 54% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the BI track. 56% of those want intermediate sessions.
  • 60% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the Professional Development track.

Based on the survey DBA and Database Dev tracks should have the most sessions. The Professional Development and BI tracks should have close to an equal number. In the past, it seems like the BI sessions doubled or tripled the Professional Development session.

I am trying to keep opinion out of this post so I leave it an this. Am I misinterpreting the numbers? What are your thoughts?

Disclosure: I am team lead on the DBA abstract selection team and I have submitting a single ProDev abstract.

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