Thanks to Gail and Grant

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Thanks to Gail and Grant

sqldriver

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September 10, 2014 at 11:58 am

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For the great 24HOP sessions yesterday. Has anyone seen them together at the same time? They sound awfully alike.
Not sure if any other regulars here had sessions. They may use some ridiculously contrived handle with "SQL" in it or something 😀
Wish I could make it out to PASS. A lot of the preview sessions I joined were really interesting.
Thanks

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

sqldriver (9/10/2014)
Has anyone seen them together at the same time? They sound awfully alike.

Yes, I assure you many, many people have seen us both at the same time. Including an entire room full who probably are permanently scarred from watching us co-present 8 hours on execution plans a few years ago.

As for sounding similar... really? I have a fairly strong British accent with South African overtones and Grant's is very much American accent, north-east USA variant (I think)

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

tjaybelt SSCrazy Points: 2604 More actions · Answer 2

I have seen them together, and Grant is nowhere as good looking as Gail is. nor as tough and smart.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398908 More actions · Answer 3

Don't listen to Gail. We're actually just one person and you are the first to notice.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad the session was helpful.

I'd love to present with Gail again, regardless of the harm we would inflict on others. We had way too much fun.

Thanks again

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398908 More actions · Answer 4

tjaybelt (9/10/2014)
I have seen them together, and Grant is nowhere as good looking as Gail is. nor as tough and smart.

I agree with everything but the tough part.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Grant Fritchey (9/10/2014)
I'd love to present with Gail again, regardless of the harm we would inflict on others. We had way too much fun.

Shall we try for Bits next year?

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

And thank you. The 24hop session was better received than I'd expected, seeing as it's fairly dry internals all the way through.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398908 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster (9/10/2014)
Grant Fritchey (9/10/2014)
I'd love to present with Gail again, regardless of the harm we would inflict on others. We had way too much fun.
Shall we try for Bits next year?

Absolutely.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning