May 31, 2013 at 1:56 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Bicentennial
May 31, 2013 at 4:47 am
Steve, I'll be attending tomorrow as well. Ive been looking forward to this event for a while now. The SQL Saturday events I have attended have all been great expieriences both for learning and networking. Thanks to you and Andy for getting the ball rolling.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Luke.
May 31, 2013 at 5:18 am
Good luck and thanks for starting these off.
I am attending SQLSaturday in Edinburgh on the 8th of June
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May 31, 2013 at 6:57 am
Bicentennial? A bit older than I would have expected 😛
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May 31, 2013 at 7:31 am
I was at SQL Saturday here in Atlanta a couple weekends back, and it was great. Steve Busby gave a presentation on SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, which I found very interesting. In the demo, he was running an aggregate query that performed a table scan across 240 billion rows in one second.
Also, the previous Friday, I attended Adam Machanic's full-day session on parallelism and performance and would highly reccomend it.
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May 31, 2013 at 8:37 am
Phil Parkin (5/31/2013)
Bicentennial? A bit older than I would have expected 😛
Yes, the first SQL Saturday took place in Cambridge in May 1813, where a young Charles Babbage demonstrated a prototype of his new difference engine running SQL Server v1.0. 🙂
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
May 31, 2013 at 12:19 pm
I attended my first in Detroit a few months back and it was great.
Second for me is Columbus on 6/8 - I'm looking forward to it.
May 31, 2013 at 4:14 pm
I went to the one in Redmond a couple of weeks back. I enjoyed it, especially learning more about HDInsight. As an old time programmer (TRS-80 with a cassette tape) I was tickled that the circle is now complete. Big data is just the same as ancient data. 😛
June 3, 2013 at 12:26 pm
Eric M Russell (5/31/2013)
I was at SQL Saturday here in Atlanta a couple weekends back, and it was great. Steve Busby gave a presentation on SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, which I found very interesting. In the demo, he was running an aggregate query that performed a table scan across 240 billion rows in one second.Also, the previous Friday, I attended Adam Machanic's full-day session on parallelism and performance and would highly reccomend it.
I was there as well. They said it was the largest turnout ever for a SQLSaturday event. Great experience in a very nice venue also.
Tony
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