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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736770 More actions · Answer 1

A full day pre-con is 6 hours. Not a huge stretch if you've done 4, could be hard if you've never done more than 2. However, if you want, I'd encourage you to build it in slices, deliver 1-2 hour segments at UGs or somewhere else, get a feel for timing, then submit for a precon.

Some SQL Saturdays will do pre-cons as well, so if you want to try something out and take a risk, offer it to one close to you.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736770 More actions · Answer 2

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004471 More actions · Answer 3

Jack Corbett (7/3/2010)
Cool! They must be in the developer track because I didn't see them in the DBA track. I'm sure one of them will be selected. Looking forward to meeting you in person finally.

Yep... Developer Track. Looking forward to meeting you and many other folks that I've known on this site for many years but have never met.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - Editor (7/3/2010)
A full day pre-con is 6 hours. Not a huge stretch if you've done 4, could be hard if you've never done more than 2. However, if you want, I'd encourage you to build it in slices, deliver 1-2 hour segments at UGs or somewhere else, get a feel for timing, then submit for a precon.

Might give it a go next year. I know my usergroup would be very happy if I presented at 6 meetings in a row

Some SQL Saturdays will do pre-cons as well, so if you want to try something out and take a risk, offer it to one close to you.

Only way I'm gonna get a SQLSat close is if I organise it completely. Lot of work, don't know if there'd be much interest.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736770 More actions · Answer 5

You might be surprised. No one in the US thought they would work, but even small cities have gotten 60-80 people to come out for a Sat. Often we use community college rooms and it works out well.

However it is some work, and it helps if you find 3-4 people to each do a part. There was one in NZ, and a few people have partnered with Code Camps or .NET groups to do a joint event, separate marketing.

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

Steve Jones - Editor (7/3/2010)
However it is some work, and it helps if you find 3-4 people to each do a part.

Considering the success (not) I've been having in getting people to volunteer (or volunteer and keep to their commitments) with the usergroup, that's gonna be hard.

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

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 7

Jeff Moden (7/3/2010)
Jack Corbett (7/3/2010)
Cool! They must be in the developer track because I didn't see them in the DBA track. I'm sure one of them will be selected. Looking forward to meeting you in person finally.
Yep... Developer Track. Looking forward to meeting you and many other folks that I've known on this site for many years but have never met.

I wish we could afford for me to attend the PASS conference, unfortunately neither me or my employer can afford it.

I'd love to meet many of you that I have gotten to know here on SSC.

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 8

Since there's a bit of talk going on about topics to present and such, I'd like to get some input from some of the Threadizens...

I've been contemplating making a presentation to the UG based on the Comparing Table Variables with Temporary Tables article[/url] that I wrote last year - do you'll think that this would make a good presentation?

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 9

WayneS (7/5/2010)
Since there's a bit of talk going on about topics to present and such, I'd like to get some input from some of the Threadizens...
I've been contemplating making a presentation to the UG based on the Comparing Table Variables with Temporary Tables article[/url] that I wrote last year - do you'll think that this would make a good presentation?

Seems like a good idea to me, as it was a good article. Might help dispel some of the myths (both the ones you mention explicitly as myths and the ones that you debunk in passing) about the differences between the the two and their respective advantages/disadvantages.

Tom

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 10

Be still, my heart!

Jeff's now teaching how to write a c.u.r.s.o.r.

:w00t:

(Who would have thought he would be able to even write one??? ;-):-P )

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 11

WayneS
I've been contemplating making a presentation to the UG based on the Comparing Table Variables with Temporary Tables article that I wrote last year - do you'll think that this would make a good presentation?

Definitely YES

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 12

WayneS (7/5/2010)
Be still, my heart!
Jeff's now teaching how to write a c.u.r.s.o.r.
:w00t:
(Who would have thought he would be able to even write one??? ;-):-P )

I hope he was appropriately chastised and sent to the naughty corner 😛

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398926 More actions · Answer 13

WayneS (7/5/2010)
Since there's a bit of talk going on about topics to present and such, I'd like to get some input from some of the Threadizens...
I've been contemplating making a presentation to the UG based on the Comparing Table Variables with Temporary Tables article[/url] that I wrote last year - do you'll think that this would make a good presentation?

Yeah, looks like a great presentation topic. It's information that just doesn't seem to get communicated, no matter how often or at level of detail it's put out there. So reinforcing it in your area with a presentation is an excellent idea.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004471 More actions · Answer 14

WayneS (7/5/2010)
Be still, my heart!
Jeff's now teaching how to write a c.u.r.s.o.r.
:w00t:
(Who would have thought he would be able to even write one??? ;-):-P )

BWAA-HAAA!!! The only reason why I know how to write one (or at least I think I know how to write one :hehe:) is to demonstrate how slow they are. 😀 If you take a look at the rest of that post, it's saying "Don't use cursors" 72 different ways.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden (7/6/2010)
If you take a look at the rest of that post, it's saying "Don't use cursors" 72 different ways.

Making excuses after the fact does not excuse you :Whistling:

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.