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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 730726 More actions · Answer 1

Glad you enjoyed it. Pix looked great.

I'm headed to Pensacola this weekend and Austin next month. No Albany for me, I'll be in the UK 🙁

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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31139 More actions · Answer 2

July 20 (one week from tomorrow), my hometown is hosting SQL Saturday #855 in Albany!

Upstate New York is a great place to visit in the summer!

Who's coming?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1002555 More actions · Answer 3

I've been accepted to speak at Providence, RI this year. I'm presenting "Black Arts" Index Maintenance parts 1 & 2.

https://www.sqlsaturday.com/892/Sessions/Schedule.aspx

As a bit of a side bar, it'll be interesting to see how their schedule actually works out. They're sessions are 55 minutes long and they only have 5 minutes between sessions. Not much time between to visit the sponsor tables and it'll be interesting to find out how well they like that!

It also doesn't provide much time for people with handicaps to make it to the next session.

I'm also a bit amazed at how little there is offered in the areas of T-SQL programming and related performance improvement, especially for beginners. There's also virtually nothing having to do with creating a "Restore Plan" or other DBA basics. Pittsburgh has a whole track for "So you wanna be a DBA" and it's been extremely popular and well attended over the years.

My understanding as to why they did this was to increase the number of sessions available for a limited number of rooms and still be able to get done by 4:30. My personal feeling is that it's not going to go as well as they may think, especially with what sponsors may think.

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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31139 More actions · Answer 4

Jeff Moden wrote:

I've been accepted to speak at Providence, RI this year.

I'm presenting at Providence, too! I'll see you there, Jeff! Looking forward to seeing you again!

This'll be my third time speaking at Providence, and they usually do a pretty good job!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1002555 More actions · Answer 5

Ray K wrote:

Jeff Moden wrote:
I've been accepted to speak at Providence, RI this year.
I'm presenting at Providence, too! I'll see you there, Jeff! Looking forward to seeing you again! This'll be my third time speaking at Providence, and they usually do a pretty good job!

I've also presented there before and they did do a great job... except the ones in the past always had 15 minutes between sessions. This is the first time the interludes have only been 5 minutes.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31139 More actions · Answer 6

Who's going to be in Providence this weekend? (Jeff Moden: besides you, that is; I already know you'll be there!)

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Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 26720 More actions · Answer 7

Ray K wrote:

Who's going to be in Providence this weekend? (Jeff Moden: besides you, that is; I already know you'll be there!)

I was going to actually take a few days and hit Providence, and then Cape Cod or Westerly. But, there's Cub Scout camping this weekend, and a birthday party on Sunday. Grrrr.

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