Category Archives: Review

SQL Saturday #16 – Recap

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

Last Saturday was the SQL Saturday event at Devry University in Miramar, Florida. First off I have to say it was a great event with over 400 attendees! It was also my very first SQL Saturday speaking event. The speaker … Continue reading →

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Spacecoast SQL User Group Meeting: Review

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

After writing up my review for my presentation at OPASS I realized I hadn’t done one for my visit to Melbourne for the Spacecoast SQL User Group! A thousand apologies Bonnie and crew! I arrived early in Melbourne so I … Continue reading →

Events, Policy Based Management, Presentation, Review, Syndication

Recap: Performance Tuning and Query Optimization

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

Tonight was our monthly SQL Server User Group meeting and our featured presenter this evening was Plamen Ratchev (Blog) presenting on performance tuning and query optimization. First off, he has an awesome accent. I think he’s of Croatian descent from … Continue reading →

PASS, Presentation, Review, SQL Server, Syndicated, Syndication, user group

Pre vs iPhone: Reviews…Sorta

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

Well the last few days has been pretty active in the cell phone industry. On Saturday we had the debut of the Palm Pre, the supposed “iPhone killer” that was supposed to bring Palm back from the dead and Sprint … Continue reading →

Review

Tampa SQL BI User Group – Designing Slowly Changing Dimensions

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

So Monday night was the monthly SQL BI user group meeting. Attending these meetings is always interesting for me since I’m not a BI-guy (leave out the gutter jokes please…) so I definitely learn something new. I also leave with … Continue reading →

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