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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 1

Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂

If you make the next one, I'll buy you a proper English beer 😀

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 2

anthony.green (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
I missed the London one's due to family commitements, if you every do them again in the UK, maybe one in the Manchester area as well as London as that would be easier for us Northener's

I guarantee there'll be another in the UK. Not at all sure where else.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 3

Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂

I remember those guys. What did they think?

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

laurie-789651 SSCertifiable Points: 7680 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey (9/28/2012)
anthony.green (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
I missed the London one's due to family commitements, if you every do them again in the UK, maybe one in the Manchester area as well as London as that would be easier for us Northener's
I guarantee there'll be another in the UK. Not at all sure where else.

Make sure there's free beer again!

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Hahaha! Brussels is just about big enough for a brewery, a monastery and a chippy - so long as the brewery is IN the monastery!
But the brewery IS Cantillon... and they've got the Mannekin Pis

That's all too much like Reading on a weekend evening.

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 6

laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/28/2012)
anthony.green (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
I missed the London one's due to family commitements, if you every do them again in the UK, maybe one in the Manchester area as well as London as that would be easier for us Northener's
I guarantee there'll be another in the UK. Not at all sure where else.
Make sure there's free beer again!

Don't let Laurie anywhere near the beer, he does conjuring tricks with it :hehe:

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 7

Grant Fritchey (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
THREADIZENS!
Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂
I remember those guys. What did they think?

They were absolutely thrilled when they got back.

Title of their inter-company blog post: Mario & Jurgen in RedGate Wonderland.

Some excerpts:

we attended a LOT of interesting sessions on "real-life" scenarios

After all, it was a very interesting, usefull and learning day.

Anyway, due to family commitments - someone has to give the baby a bottle at night - I can't commit myself to travelling abroad. So a SQL in the City in Brussels will be very much appreciated. Just a small hint 🙂

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 8

Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
THREADIZENS!
Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂
I remember those guys. What did they think?
They were absolutely thrilled when they got back.
Title of their inter-company blog post: Mario & Jurgen in RedGate Wonderland.
Some excerpts:
we attended a LOT of interesting sessions on "real-life" scenarios
After all, it was a very interesting, usefull and learning day.
Anyway, due to family commitments - someone has to give the baby a bottle at night - I can't commit myself to travelling abroad. So a SQL in the City in Brussels will be very much appreciated. Just a small hint 🙂

... just dangle the bottle from a mobile. When the little one wakes up, it's right there.

Wayne
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Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50118 More actions · Answer 9

Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?

I'll be at the Chicago event next week!

:w00t:

Going to plant myself in the Red Room, those are the topics that interest / affect me the most right now...

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 10

Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?

I'd love to go to the one in Boston, but it is a workday.

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Kiara SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4185 More actions · Answer 11

Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?

I'd be at the Chicago event, except that I'll be in another city. I'm still sulking about that.

-Ki

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 12

Kiara (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
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Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
I'd be at the Chicago event, except that I'll be in another city. I'm still sulking about that.

This looks like a fun, never-ending game. I'd be in Timbuktu, but I'm somewhere else. :hehe:

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

ChrisM@Work (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
THREADIZENS!
Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂
If you make the next one, I'll buy you a proper English beer 😀

If we had one somewhere civilised instead of that awful place, you could buy him a proper Scottish beer.

Actually, even in the uncivilised deep south (Cheshire) we sometimes get Fraoch beer - but only at beer festivals.

Or we could follow Koen's suggestion, and go somewhere semi-civilised (and get Belgian beer); I regard Brussels as more civilised than England. A lot less civilised than Munchen, though - Schneider dunkles weisse is better than anything in England, never mind anything in Brussels.

I guess the Belgians are good at sprouts though - and it's probably impossible to be good at both sprouts and beer (it's obviously easy to be bad at both - just look at England).

Tom

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 14

L' Eomot Inversé (9/28/2012)
I guess the Belgians are good at sprouts though - and it's probably impossible to be good at both sprouts and beer (it's obviously easy to be bad at both - just look at England).

The weird thing is, not a lot of people in Belgium even like sprouts... 🙂

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736478 More actions · Answer 15

Hope to see some of you this year, even if it's not at SQL in the City. We had a great event in New York. Looking forward to the rest.