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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Book Review: The Yankee Years
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre ($12 @ Amazon) was a gift, and I enjoyed it more than expected. When it first came out there was a lot of hoopla about it being an expose, and while I guess there … Continue reading
Follow Up On My Keynote Survey
Here are the results of the survey, 75% in favor of a non-technical keynote, with a less than stellar sampling of 32 votes! Thought twtpoll worked pretty well, haven’t compared to others, but very easy to use and I like … Continue reading
Does The Job Matter To You?
Last week I wrote an editorial for SQLServerCentral titled Does The Job Matter To You?, asking how much the type of work mattered – what if you could do something you really wanted to and make the same money? As … Continue reading
PASS Update #33 (SQLSaturday Transfer)
I’ve just finished handing over the source code for all the SQLSaturday related items after finishing up a couple minor bugs in the admin tools. Along with the just completed transfer of the domain, that finishes up all the tasks … Continue reading
Book Review: Currencies That Buy Credibility
I ordered a copy of Currencies That Buy Credibility ($14 @ Amazon) after a comment from author Tom Wanek on Twitter about a post I had written on The Checklist Manifesto. Saw that Tom had a web site and book … Continue reading
PASS Update #32 (Spring Event & May 2010 Minutes)
If you download the May 2010 minutes of the Board meeting (login required) you’ll see that we devoted an entire meeting to trying to figure out the format of the ‘spring event’. For those of you just joining in the … Continue reading
Preparing for SQLSaturday #49
We’re still in the early stages so the pace is comfortably slow. We’ve got about 30 sessions in already (plenty of room for more), a few people interested in submitting an abstract for our $99 pre-con, and Jack Corbett toiling … Continue reading
Unofficial Poll on 2010 PASS Summit Keynote Speaker
I’ve blogged on this before, here and here, and ended up chatting about it on Twitter (see, I do use it sometimes) and Adam Machanic asked about a poll to gauge the interest, so I’ve launched one at http://twtpoll.com/3x3fq4. Hope … Continue reading
oPASS June 2010 Meeting Date Change
Normally we meet on the second Tuesday of the month, but in June we’re going to have to push the meeting to June 15th due to our own perfect storm of events. Jack Corbett was already schedule to be out … Continue reading
Vote for The Keynote by Dr. DeWitt
You can choose from how query optimization works and why it’s so hard, or how relational engines and MapReduce can work together. Expect that neither will be about writing select queries! http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/na2010/Voteforthe2010DavidDeWittKeynoteTopic.aspx He’s a great speaker, and I’m pleased he … Continue reading
