Archive for the ‘SQLServerPedia Syndication’ Category

#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
Posted in: Conferences, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#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
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

SQLSaturday Atlanta 2011–advance notice

Last night a small group of us (Aaron Nelson, Audrey Hammonds, Julie Smith, Tim Radney, and me) met to discuss this year’s upcoming SQL Saturday; our goal is to make it a bigger event than last year, but still try to keep it very community-centric.  Here’s a couple of bullet points that I can tease [...]

April 22, 2011 · stuart · 2 Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

Something new for 2011: bunches of little stuff

OK, it’s the last day of March, and I’m phoning in this blog post.  It’s not that I haven’t spent a lot of time learning something new this month, it’s that I’ve got a pile of stuff to get through before leaving on vacation next week, and I really just don’t have more than 15 [...]

March 31, 2011 · stuart · 3 Comments
Posted in: Something New, SQLServerPedia Syndication

much delayed #sqlsat70 write-up

This write-up will be brief and to the point: SQL Saturday 70 rocked.  K. Brian Kelley (Blog|Twitter) and his team put together a great event (again), and it was a lot of fun catching up with so many SQL people.  Unfortunately, I had a rather severe sinus infection which kept me from really enjoying the [...]

March 28, 2011 · stuart · 3 Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#TSQL2sday: Emulating a FIRST aggregation

Jes Borland is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and it’s all about aggregations.  Here’s an old coding trick of mine to emulate a FIRST aggregation in T-SQL.  Say we have a table that has three columns: ID, a uniqueidentifier Name, a varchar that represents something, and DateStored, a datetime that is set when the row [...]

March 8, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQLServerPedia Syndication, TSQL2sDay

My interview with #sqlpeople is up!

Totally missed this one a few days ago; my mini-blog with SQLPeople was just posted on March 2.  Thanks to Andy Leonard for pulling this together; it’s been interesting reading about a lot of people I already knew, but didn’t know enough about.

March 7, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

Resolution checkup

As February draws to a close, I thought I’d do a quick check-up to see how well I was keeping up with my New Year’s resolution list.  In sum: not great, but not too bad, either.  I need to make some adjustments, but I think I can pull it back in. Here’s the rundown (copied [...]

February 28, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Development, Health, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web