I was channel flipping after dinner when I saw this and had to stop to watch a few minutes of the John Wayne classic McClintock. If you’ve haven’t seen it you’re missing out, it’s comedy, with a few great scenes. I stayed watching long enough to see the great fight scene that happens on top […]
Read more "McClintock!"I was enjoyed the Sunday newspaper (on Sunday!) and ran across this column about various voting systems and that made me curious enough to dig a little more, starting with this article. There is a definite distinction between the system (often based on a math proof) and the implementation of the actual voting. Makes sense […]
Read more "Voting Theory"The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up, but the minutes of our planning meetings so far are now available thanks to some work from PASS HQ, you can see them at http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally.aspx. I hope you’ll read them. I know minute aren’t page […]
Read more "SQLRally Meeting Minutes"SQLSaturday #48 is October 2nd, 2010, at Midlands Technical College in West Columbia, SC. I’ll be doing two presentations, one on Building a Professional Development Plan (practice for Summit!) and the other is DBA 101: The Basics. The latter is a presentation Steve Jones wrote and Brian Kelley asked if I would do instead of […]
Read more "Speaking at SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC"Jack Corbett and I are trying a few new things at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando this year (Oct 16, 2010) and I thought I’d share them here. We don’t know if they will work, but it’s fun to try! As I’ve blogged about before, we’re going to have an afternoon popcorn break thanks to one […]
Read more "New Ideas for SQLSaturday"Yesterday I did another presentation via Live Meeting, some thoughts from that effort: Perf VC team did a great job making sure we had everything lined up prior to the event. This may seem like a little thing, but it’s nice to have it pushed to me instead of having to figure it out. Erin […]
Read more "More Notes on Live Meeting Presentations"Here is the slide from the presentation today for the PASS Performance Tuning Virtual Chapter. Thanks to all those that attended! http://www.sqlandy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Introduction-to-Statistics.zip
Read more "Slide Deck for Introduction to Statistics"I found this while looking for a quick way to throw some words into a slide, was thinking something along the lines of a tag cloud and this goes a step beyond. You can plug in a word list, point it to a page or feed, then you can apply styles and shapes – yes, […]
Read more "Tagxedo"I’ll be doing a presentation titled Introduction to Statistics in SQL Server today (Sep 7, 2010) at noon for the PASS Virtual Chapter. It’s designed to teach the vocabulary and concepts and open the door to some of the more complex cases that we sometimes hit with statistics. I’ve done this one a few times, […]
Read more "Reminder: Introduction to Statistics Presentation Today at Noon"Another choice brought about by wandering the local library, Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States by Herman Obermayer ($11 @ Amazon). I usually avoid anything related to politics in the last 30 years or so, and still do! I’m sharing this because it’s a different book than might […]
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