Archive for May, 2011

Reminder: Data Architecture PASS VC presentation tomorrow

Just a quick note: I’ll be presenting from the wilds of Hoschton, GA via Live Meeting tomorrow night at 8PM EST.  Details cut and pasted below from http://dataarch.sqlpass.org/:   Subject: From DBA to Data Architect: Changing Your Game Start Time: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:00 PM US Eastern Time (May 20, 2011 1:00 AM GMT) [...]

May 18, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
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#msteched Columnstore indexes unveiled–DBI312

Live blogging again; hope you find my notes useful (scattered though they are).  I’ve been waiting on this session because it’s a very specific area of interest.  I work a lot with VLDB’s, and performance is always a concern; claims are that Denali’s columnstore may boost performance of certain queries hundred-fold.  Let’s see how they [...]

May 17, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Code, Conferences, SQL, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#msteched “Juneau” preview

Sitting in the Database Dev session at Tech Ed, taking a look at “Juneau”, the new development suite for SQL Server.  I can’t wait to see if this thing slices and dices data like a Ronco food processor.  Again, live blogging, so please excuse the scattered thoughts, poor spelling, and other bad habits below. Database [...]

May 16, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
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#msteched skydiving into the cloud

Here’s a first for me; I’m live-blogging from a keynote.  Diving straight into it, so please excuse the sparseness of the notes. Robert Wahbe trying to lay out the vision for the cloud from Microsoft; trying to establish that the future is the cloud.  I hate buzzwords, but I think the point of the metaphor [...]

May 16, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

knowing when to walk away…

I don’t like to think of myself as a quitter; I especially don’t like to walk away from something I enjoy doing.  However, I’ve recently had to re-evaluate my workload (both personal and professional), and I realized that something had to give.  For me, that something was the Atlanta SQLSaturday 2011. Now, before you panic, [...]

May 2, 2011 · stuart · One Comment
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