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The SQLPASS Keynote – part 6
Sitting on the bloggers table is turning out to be fun. I’ve scared off Buck Woody (@buckwoody) (he said he had things to do), and
The SQLPASS Keynote – part 5
Atlanta is getting announced. It’s a system which runs on your SQL Server system, uploading information about your system, its configuration, performance, and so on,
The SQLPASS Keynote – part 4
Dave Mariani from Yahoo (VP Development, User Data and Analytics) is on stage at the PASS Keynote, talking about how they analyse 120TB of data
The SQLPASS Keynote – part 3
The announcements are coming in more quickly now. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/nov10/11-09PASS10PR.mspx I’m quickly pushing this link out there, because it’s a good summary of some of the
The SQLPASS Keynote – part 2
One of my favourite bits about keynote sessions are the videos that get shown leading up to the main speaker. Here at SQLPASS this year,
The SQLPASS Keynote – part 1
Not sure I was expecting to see a Tina impersonator at before 8:30am on a Tuesday morning, but this is SQLPASS 2010. There’s lots of