24 (28) Hours of PASS on Sep 15, 2010
It’s back with a slightly different format this time, 28 hours of seminars delivered over two days, and it’s all...
2010-09-13
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SQLAndy
PASS SQLRally Pre-Conference Seminars – The Application Process
Today we’re announcing the call for speakers for pre-conference seminars at the first SQLRally being held in Orlando in May...
2010-09-10
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McClintock!
I was channel flipping after dinner when I saw this and had to stop to watch a few minutes of...
2010-09-10
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Voting Theory
I was enjoyed the Sunday newspaper (on Sunday!) and ran across this column about various voting systems and that made...
2010-09-09
423 reads
SQLRally Meeting Minutes
The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up,...
2010-09-09
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC
SQLSaturday #48 is October 2nd, 2010, at Midlands Technical College in West Columbia, SC. I’ll be doing two presentations, one...
2010-09-08
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New Ideas for SQLSaturday
Jack Corbett and I are trying a few new things at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando this year (Oct 16, 2010)...
2010-09-08
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More Notes on Live Meeting Presentations
Yesterday I did another presentation via Live Meeting, some thoughts from that effort:
Perf VC team did a great job making...
2010-09-07
427 reads
Slide Deck for Introduction to Statistics
Here is the slide from the presentation today for the PASS Performance Tuning Virtual Chapter. Thanks to all those that...
2010-09-07
489 reads
Tagxedo
I found this while looking for a quick way to throw some words into a slide, was thinking something along...
2010-09-07
592 reads
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Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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