Monthly Archives: October 2011

SQL Run was awesome

Posted on October 12, 2011 by way0utwest

When Jes Borland suggested we do a group SQL Run in Seattle, I was thinking that we’d have a few people. Allen White and I run together when we’re in the same town, and with all the people that ran … Continue reading →

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The Countdown

Posted on October 12, 2011 by way0utwest

This is going to be so cool. I heard about this over the summer, and it’s quite possible that my jaw literally dropped when I was told. It was stunning, surprising, something that I never expected. Especially with the short … Continue reading →

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The Half Day Experiment

Posted on October 11, 2011 by way0utwest

At conferences and events I have found that the vast majority of sessions are one hour long. Sometimes events have experimented with 75 or  90 minute sessions, but the majority of talks I’ve heard were an hour, short enough to … Continue reading →

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A Nice Refund

Posted on October 10, 2011 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Sept 12, 2006. How’d you like to be the DBA for a system thatmistakenly gives out $318 million? It probably wasn’t the database, but more likely the code for some application that caused this … Continue reading →

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