PASSMN Meeting 2026-05-19 (Virtual Meeting Only)

Important Note: This meeting is online only and will not be held at the Microsoft Technology Center

Agenda:
📅 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 📅
🕜 3:30-4:00 Kickoff / Announcements
🕜 4:00-5:00 Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations
(Andy Levy)
🕜 5:00-5:10 Break
🕜 5:10-6:10 Virtual networking and discussion.
🕜 6:10-6:15 Closing

Sessions

🕜 4:00 pm
⭐️ Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations
🙂 Andy Levy
It seems like every time I take a few days off, something at the office breaks. As a Lone DBA for over four years this terrified me. Even after I moved into a larger team of DBAs with a proper on-call rotation, I took the work laptop with me on vacation and compulsively checked my phone.
Writing support documentation finally put my mind at ease. It may not be the most glamorous thing to do, but it pays off. Writing, maintaining, and promoting support documentation for the systems I built and supported not only put my mind at ease, but helped me understand them better.
In this session, you’ll learn about what led me down this path, how I’ve evolved my thinking about where I write my documentation, and the tools that I use. You’ll also learn tricks to keeping things up to date and making this information readily accessible to other people when they need it most.

🕜 5:10 pm
⭐️ Virtual Networking and Discussion

Speakers

🙂 Speaker 1
⚡️ Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations
Andy is a database administrator, PowerShell fan, former developer, Open Source contributor, RVer, and connoisseur of dad jokes (not in that order). He’s worn a number of IT hats since 1999 before landing in database administration, including web server administration and development, systems integration, and database development. When he isn’t picking queries apart and wrangling unruly herds of databases, he can be found planning next summer's family camping trips or mentoring the TAN[X] FIRST Robotics Competition team.