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Monthly Archives: August 2010
SQLRally Pre-Con Selection Process – Draft for Comment
Hopefully you’ve heard by now that PASS is launching a new event format called SQLRally in May 2011 in Orlando. It will be a two day conference, preceded by one day of seminars. Because it’s a new format, we can … Continue reading
Positioning SQLRally in the PASS Event Universe
Prior to creating SQLRally the world of PASS consisted of the PASS Summit which is our annual mega-event, the European Summit, SQLSaturday, chapter meetings, and the occasional launch event. With all that going on, did we need another brand? What … Continue reading
Upcoming PASS Performance Virtual Chapter Presentation
I’ll be doing an introductory level presentation on statistics for the Performance VC on September 7th, details and the LiveMeeting URL at http://performance.sqlpass.org/). For those of you who have been tuning for a while you’re not likely to learn a … Continue reading
PASS Update #42
Our most recent board meeting was in Nashville on Aug 19, 20. We had originally discussed meeting in Seattle/Redmond/Vancouver, but by the time we scheduled the August meeting a few of us had already committed to attending the SQLSaturday in … Continue reading
SSC Editorial – What Superhero Would You Be?
This was written for something fun on a Friday, but it’s still interesting for coffee talk anytime – what superhero would you be if you could? Saw a few votes for Batman, a couple for the Flash, and a few … Continue reading
Tagged Chocolate, Conferences, Evangelist, Spencer
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Furniture Grade PVC – What Will You Make?
Ran across this in my weekly browsing, Formufit sells furniture grade PVC. I think I’m not quite clear on the difference between that and regular PVC pipe yet, but what I do see in their catalog is a lot of … Continue reading
Tagged ACE, Baseball, Conferences, Dessert
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Presenting at Jacksonville Code Camp
I’m leaving later today for the not too bad drive to Jacksonville for the sixth annual Code Camp. I’ve got one presentation on the schedule (statistics) and I see a whole track on BI, plus one on complex events and … Continue reading
Default to Yes
There are a lot of times when the decision matters less than who makes it. A common if simplified example is a code review; whoever ‘wins’ the review gets to feel some ownership, and all too often the win is … Continue reading
Tagged DBA, Database Design, Editorial
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Book Review: The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency
I picked up The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency $13 @ Amazon) from the library, had been hoping to find In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and … Continue reading
Audio Proofreading & Writing Quality
Funny how if take time for longer conversations, ones that ramble, you often learn interesting things that you just wouldn’t learn any other way. My friend Don was in town for SQLSaturday #40 a few weeks back and we were … Continue reading
Tagged Conferences, Food, Interview, Tablets
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