In his recent, successful bid to win election to the PASS board, Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey) opened his campaign statement as follows: The PASS organization changed my life for the better. He goes on to explain how, as a result, he’d now like to help extend the benefits he’s experienced to as many other people as possible.

It’s a simple but rather powerful message and captures the spirit of what makes PASS tick, and will continue to make it successful. I’ve been a PASS member for many years and since around 2004 have missed very few PASS summits. As a result, I’m better at my job. I have a deeper knowledge of SQL Server and considerably stronger professional network. Each year at PASS Summit, I catch up with some of the PASS Board members who dedicate their time trying to ensure that as people as possible feel benefit from PASS in similar ways. On the final day of PASS Summit 2013, in Charlotte, I interviewed Bill Graziano (@billgraziano), Douglas McDowell (@douglasmcdowell), and Thomas LaRock (@SQLRockstar).

In anticipation of PASS Summit 2014 in Seattle, here’s what they had to say about PASS, both the summit itself and the work it does at the grassroots level, in educating the SQL Server community.

• 0:10 – Introductions
• 0:36 – Impressions of SQL PASS 2013 (Charlotte, NC)
• 1:28 – Making connections: First timers at PASS Summit
• 3:11 – Getting the most out of PASS Summit
• 4:00 – Learning at PASS: knowledge for right now
• 5:11 – Learning at PASS: what’s coming next?
• 7:09 – PASS: not just for DBAs
• 8:12 – More than just a summit: PASS at grassroots
• 10:17 – Happy Summit memories
• 11:45 – See you at PASS 2014 in Seattle!
• 11:59 – Blooper reel