A Thought on Career Decisions
One of the many conversations I had at the PASS Summit was about whether to pursue Direction A or Direction...
2011-10-28
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Andy Warren
Play the Bob Ross Game
I was in a meeting a few weeks ago, deadlines looming and everyone feeling the stress some. We hit a...
2011-10-28
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Seeing Yourself as Others Do
As life skills go one of the hardest is to see yourself as others do – they apply all kinds of...
2011-10-25
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PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)
Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term...
2011-10-24
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Virtual/Adhoc Teams
I’m a fan of virtual teams, times when you pull together people from across many teams to form a team...
2011-10-20
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3D Printing for Under $1000
I saw this about the iModela 3d printer, it’s priced under $1000, making it approachable if not quite cheap. 3d...
2011-10-19
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Culture Posters
I work with a client now that had a poster made of the top 10 values for the IT department....
2011-10-19
616 reads
Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012
After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame...
2011-10-19
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2011 PASS Summit-Report #4
I’m writing this at the Seattle airport on Friday night with a couple hours to relax before the midnight flight...
2011-10-15
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2011 PASS Summit–Report #3
Friday morning keynote. Quick intro from Rick Heiges. Buck Woody and Rob Farley singing, quite the sight for Friday morning....
2011-10-14
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Blogs
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
This Black Week, don't just get a discount—get ahead! Whether you're a total newbie...
Forums
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Tools for MySQL memory estimations and optimization?
Hi all! I’ve been using MySQLCalculator.com for memory calculations, but I’m looking for alternatives...
Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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