Monthly Archives: September 2014

Grant for President

Posted on September 22, 2014 by way0utwest

Grant Fritchey is running for the PASS board. He’s not running for President, though I’m not sure why he shouldn’t be able to. The board makes decisions as a group and the President isn’t necessarily more or less powerful than … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Get Testing with tSQLt

Posted on September 20, 2014 by way0utwest

tSQLt is a testing framework that is designed to help you write repeatable, isolated tests against your database code. In this session we will briefly examine the goals of testing, where it can be used in an automated deployment pipeline, … Continue reading →

Posted in Presentations | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Get Testing with tSQLt

Watson Freemium

Posted on September 20, 2014 by way0utwest

I’ve been intrigued by the Watson project from IBM. It was quite a coup to see the platform win on Jeopardy. That’s an amazing accomplishment for machine learning, though it does seem like the investment and effort to set up the platform and … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Watson Freemium

Back from DevConnections

Posted on September 19, 2014 by way0utwest

I spent a few days at DevConnections this week and really enjoyed the conference. The location was Aria in Las Vegas, where I’ve never been, but it was a new, really nice hotel and there was one amazing thing: The … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Back from DevConnections