Tentative Meetings
A lot of my work right now involves going to meetings. A few of them are ones I host, a...
2011-11-10
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa
Quick notes as it is already Thursday!
The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting...
2011-11-10
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Book Review: Moneyball
With the movie coming out I realized somehow I’d missed reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It’s the story of how...
2011-11-09
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Reliving Basic Training, Sort Of
Recently I had the luxury of a long afternoon lunch at Chipotle on a Sunday afternoon, catching up on some...
2011-11-07
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2011-11-04
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SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa–Tomorrow!
With a little bit of luck I’ll be arriving in Orlando today around 9 am as I return from SQLConnections...
2011-11-04
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Meetings as Battles
I was in a meeting recently that had some quiet tension to it, at least two different sides represented and...
2011-11-02
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Fame and Social Media
Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...
2011-11-01
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Two of a Kind
Here’s one that I haven’t run into before. A colleague scheduled a meeting with someone else in the organization to...
2011-10-31
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Play the Bob Ross Game
I was in a meeting a few weeks ago, deadlines looming and everyone feeling the stress some. We hit a...
2011-10-28
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Blogs
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Advice I Like: Responsibility
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“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
Power BI Performance in 2026: A Practical Guide to Faster Semantic Models and Reports
By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
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