Our most recent 24 Hours of PASS celebrated the SQL 2008 R2 launch. 24 great sessions, 23 of which were recorded, somehow we missed recording the one by Donald Farmer (sorry Donald!) That’s 23 hours of great education (and a little entertainment) that is free for PASS members to view on demand. Login required to […]
Read more "24 Hours of PASS Recordings Now Available"As the owner of a meeting/discussion you have two options on how to drive the conversation, and which you use depends on the answer you want. Sound cynical? Perhaps, but read on! Technique one is to say ‘this is what I’m thinking about as a plan/direction’ and invite comment. That typically frames the conversation so […]
Read more "Leaders in Meetings"We’re meeting from 6-8 pm as usual, with Kendal Van Dyke presenting Paging Dr Availability, You’re Wanted In the Recovery Room, a presentation designed to clarify for our members the differences between the various HA and DR options in and out of SQL. Should be interesting. Our sponsor this month is Tews Company. Details at […]
Read more "oPASS Meeting Tonight June 15, 2010 – Featuring Kendal Van Dyke"In previous years we’ve just invited a speaker or two to submit a presentation for an all day paid event (pre-con) for SQLSaturday Orlando. This year we announced it (though we didn’t promote it much after that) and we got a really nice variety. Our next step is to send out a survey to our […]
Read more "Potential Pre-Cons for SQLSaturday #49"Bayer White has announced the call for speakers for the 2010 Jacksonville Code Camp to be held August 28, 2010 at the University of North Florida. They usually have a sql track – don’t think it’s all just developers attending! It’s a dilemma for me, falling the weekend after Nashville SQLSaturday #51. I’ve been trying […]
Read more "Jacksonville Code Camp Call for Speakers"I wrote this editorial about bad design based on some real world experiences. It’s a fun story, maybe even borderline ridiculous, but the truth is the database design wasn’t as big a problem as you might expect. We got rid of some of the duplicate data bulk caused by the ‘seach columns’ (an upper case […]
Read more "SSC Editorial – Bad Database Design"I had a chance to watch a few different styles this week at TechEd, and I think it helped that many were speakers I had not seen before. I don’t know if I can name the styles yet, but here are some notes about things I noticed: Dual presenters can suck, or be very powerful. […]
Read more "Presentation Styles"My final day at TechEd. Packed up and checked my bag at the hotel, off to the bus. Noticed that no transportation person there managing things today – whether that’s because we’re fully trained on riding the bus now or just someone calling in sick I don’t know. Arrived just in time to miss breakfast, […]
Read more "TechEd 2010 – Wednesday"This editorial for the SSC newsletter ran last week and talks about the conundrum for software vendors – how do you let customers try the product out, is it partial functionality for a long time, full functionality for a short time, or some other combination? The comments on the editorial are – as always – […]
Read more "SSC Editorial – Limited Features or Limited Time"Noticed that they have ‘overflow’ rooms where they are broadcasting sessions that max out attendance, very nice. Wonder how much they get used? Lunch was BBQ, chopped brisket (not pulled I think – more Alpo’ish), pork. Not as good as yesterday, but not bad. I requested an interview with Torsten Grabs to learn more about […]
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