June 2008 - Posts

• PASS Summit Sessions Appearing

  I had a note from Bill Graziano this morning telling me that our spotlight sessions for the PASS Summit in Seattle in November have been posted, along with details of some of the other sessions. I'm really looking forward to the summit this year as I Read More... Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 4:35 PM by Greg Low | 1 Comments

• Community champion awards from INETA

  I had an interesting note from David Silverlight today pointing out the INETA Community Champion awards. I'd encourage all to take a look at them, at the prizes and see if you should be participating. Details at: http://www.community-credit.com/cs/blogs/community_credit_news/archive/2008/06/17/the-ineta-community-champion-award.asp Read More... Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 4:28 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• BI Databases and Table Prefixes

  I know this post has the potential for religious-level debate but it's time to make it anyway. The more I've been working with Analysis Services lately, the more it grates on me that the BI community still seem to be the last ones hanging onto table prefixes. Read More... Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 2:12 PM by Greg Low | 10 Comments

• SolidQ Australia Team Growing Again

  A while back I posted about how pleased I was that Peter Ward and Jeff Wharton were joining our team. Today, I'm just as pleased to note that Richard Lees is also coming on board. Richard is one of the strongest talents in Data Mining and Business Intelligence Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:59 PM by Greg Low | 1 Comments

• OT: Crocodiles know much more than we think

  A few weeks ago I managed to catch the tail end of the reptiles series that Sir David Attenborough created. If you have a spare 3 1/2 minutes, take a look at this video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/lifeincoldblood/video.shtml?licbtt08 People Read More... Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 2:05 AM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• Book: Database Refactoring: Evolutionary Database Design

  I had heard a lot of praise for Scott Ambler's book: Database Refactoring: Evolutionary Database Design over the past few years. It's another relatively classic book that I've been slow to read. I often mentioned to people that when I was at a software Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:35 PM by Greg Low | 3 Comments

• Book: Screw it, Let's do it - Lessons in Life

  This is another one of those books I picked up in an airport when I ran out of reading material while travelling. One of the key criteria I applied when choosing the book was whether or not I'd finish reading it by the time we landed. We had a bit of Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:27 PM by Greg Low | 1 Comments

• Book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Query Tuning and Optimization

  I haven't posted up any book reviews recently so it's time to catch up a bit. For some reason, it had taken me ages to get to read Kalen's latest book in the Inside SQL Server series: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Query Tuning and Optimization . Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:15 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• SQL Down Under Show 36 - Lubor Kollar

  Hi Folks, I've posted show 36 for SQL Down Under with guest SQL CAT team leader Lubor Kollar up at the site ( www.sqldownunder.com ). In the show, Lubor discusses the SQL CAT team and some SQL Server 2008 features such as the resource governor and compression. Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:13 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments