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Advice from Aunt Kathi
Archives: February 2010
MVP Summit Review
I was lucky enough to attend the MVP Summit held last week in Redmond and Bellevue. I attended the Summit in 2008, but had to miss 2009 because I couldn't get away from work. The cool thing about this Summit was the number of my friends attending that I know from… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 February 2010
T-SQL Speed Phreakery Explained
If you haven't seen the Simple-Talk newsletter (it's free, so sign up!) you may not have seen my article on their site. http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/writing-efficient-sql-set-based-speed-phreakery/ Writing this article has been probably the most fun I have had writing. Basically, I had to take the winning solution to a T-SQL programming challenge… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 8 February 2010
PASS 2009 DVDs
I was really excited when my PASS DVDs arrived last week. I had purchased the DVDs (or maybe CDs) back in 2003 or 2004, and the quality was just not very good. So, this is the first time since then that I actually decided to buy the DVDs in addition… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 5 February 2010