Macedonian PASS Association on 19.04.2007 organized a meeting supported by Microsoft Macedonia, where IT experts from the companies Semos, Kibs, The National Bank, Peksim, The Ministry of Interior, Komercijalna Bank and Digit participated. It was concluded that the SQL/DEV Forum as a technical forum is the most developed one in Macedonia. A special accent was set to the knowledge database of SQL Server topics with its exceptinally plentiful collection of answered questions, most of which are complex ones.
It was also agreed that the future activities should be focused on the following Summit in Barcelona, periodical work meetings, presentations, and further expanding of the SQL/DEV Forum topics.

First MVP from Macedonia. Aleksandar Talev, employed in Semos Computers, was awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). This Program recognizes and thanks outstanding members of technical communities for their community participation and willingness to help others. The program celebrates the most active community members from around the world who provide invaluable online and offline expertise that enriches the community experience and makes a difference in technical communities featuring Microsoft products.
MVPs are credible, technology experts from around the world who inspire others to learn and grow through active technical community participation. While MVPs come from many backgrounds and a wide range of technical communities, they share a passion for technology and a demonstrated willingness to help others. MVPs do this through the books and articles they author; the Web sites they manage; the blogs they maintain; the user groups they participate in; the chats they host or contribute to; the events and training sessions where they present, as well as through the questions they answer in technical newsgroups or message boards.
Microsoft MVPs are simply an amazing group of individuals. Microsoft is excited to recognize and award MVPs as their way of saying "thank you" for their demonstrated commitment to helping others in technical communities around the globe.

Macedonian SQL Server Professional Association (PASS) is a voluntary and non-profit association of Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS users, as well as association of programmers, users of Microsoft development tools. Database and Windows OS Administrators, Programmers, Trainers and other who are interested in experts' discussions and information exchange may become members of this association. Contributions of all participants in the work of the association are voluntary and free of charge, and all publications of the association are available to the public immediately after their presentation. All issues in the IT field related to Microsoft SQL Server and development of applications on MS platforms are also covered by the MKSQLPASS group.

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