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Rob Farley - Owner/Principal with LobsterPot Solutions (a MS Gold Partner consulting firm), Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) and leader of the SQL User Group in Adelaide, Australia. Rob is also a Director of PASS, and runs training courses around the world in SQL Server and BI topics.
November 2010 - Posts
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I get this question a lot. I don’t mean just ‘every so often’, I mean all the time. It would average out to daily, but there are still days when I only see people who have already asked. Either way, it’s definitely a lot . And they always put it the same Read More...
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My first PASS Summit didn’t let me down. LobsterPot Solutions sent two people to PASS this year – I was joined by Roger , who also wore the First Time ribbon on his conference badge. Roger is presenting in a couple of weeks to the Adelaide SQL Server Read More...
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I just got out of my SQLPASS session, and have uploaded the script from that to the LobsterPot site. The following link should get you there: http://www.lobsterpot.com.au/sqlpass_IncredibleShrinkingExecutionPlan.txt I’ve uploaded it as plain text, to Read More...
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So I’m in the middle of a presentation at SQLPASS, and thought I’d just write a blogpost. (Here’s the key – it’s the Zoom function) My session is on the Incredible Shrinking Execution Plan, and the basic idea behind it is to demonstrate stuff that the Read More...
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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 Thomas LaRock (@ sqlrockstar ) has sat down in the spot he had assigned before the start. Despite the fact that there’s Read More...
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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, to a service in the cloud. This information can then be browsed (or queried, of course), Read More...
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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 each day, delivering insight and the information they need to provide for advertisers. The specs are 3.5B events Read More...
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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 information. It’s not everything, and I’ll be Read More...
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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, they’ve just shown a few minutes of people talking about the early days of SQL Server. My favourite quote from it Read More...
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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 big announcements this week, particularly around Denali – which is SQL 11. The first public installation (CTP1) became Read More...
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When I’m at the PASS Summit in Seattle this week, I will need to remember that I can’t just step onto the road if I’m walking along the footpath on the right-hand side. In the UK and Australia, where we drive the correct side, it’s fine (just don’t tell Read More...
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Considering that I run a database consultancy , I should be fairly biased on this question, and suggest that you can't possibly cope without database professionals – except that I don’t really believe it all that much. I do believe it, and I’ll demonstrate Read More...
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It’s a busy week for me in Seattle next week. I’m delivering two sessions – one on Spatial Data Visualisation (on Tuesday afternoon), and one on Query Optimizer stuff (on Wednesday around lunchtime), plus I’m doing a five-minute Lightning Talk on Thursday Read More...
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At LobsterPot , there are a few things that we definitely value above other things. Integrity is top of the list – it has to be. In fact, it is the quality I refuse to compromise on with my staff. When I identify someone I want to approach for a job, Read More...
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