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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 09:36:41

well i've just taken a look at this:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=114680
and begining to take a look at these:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=31416

so i'm wondering... where the heck are you??
i'm not seeing a paper cut-out of chewbacca anywhere...

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paulrandal
Yak with Vast SQL Skills

899 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 12:48:29

The superdome's pretty cool. I remember debugging an index build issue on it once and watching a Task Manager perf window with 64 cpu usage graphs!

Paul Randal
Dev Lead, Microsoft SQL Server Storage Engine
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 13:33:22

64??? wow... and you could follow them all?

but seriously... aren't you the prime candidate for such an interview?
or is the guy who makes them too afraid of you?

Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 13:43:37

"and you could follow them all?"

Are you kidding? We are talking about THE Paul Randal here ...

I bet he checked into the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque and emerged 5 days later having written the assembly code for DBCC on a stack of yellow legal pads

Kristen

spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 14:39:17

looked at first 3... sqlteam was mentioned as a great place to get help... YAY!!

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paulrandal
Yak with Vast SQL Skills

899 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 15:27:49

quote:
Originally posted by spirit1

64??? wow... and you could follow them all?

Actually I was only following 32 of them to track a problem with a parallel index build degrading to a serial plan due to an insufficient number of statistics histogram steps.

quote:

but seriously... aren't you the prime candidate for such an interview?
or is the guy who makes them too afraid of you?

I didn't know they were going on - by all means suggest it.

Paul Randal
Dev Lead, Microsoft SQL Server Storage Engine
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 17:35:35

What an incredible site, thought the SQL server one was fascinating, what I have seen of the first one makes me feel like a technical luddite! - would love to see an interview with Paul.

I could spend all day on that site maybe they need a data mining algorithm for video

(hmm - might need to copyright that idea)

steve

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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-20 : 17:58:45

yeah channel9 is preety cool...
i laughed most when they enterd "the lab". a room crammed with computers. that AC must be hell to engineer...

and when they were filming the MVP's pictures on the wall i just waited if any of our own here would pop up.
saw just one that was on the wall and also registered here...

Paul: i didn't know i could suggest who i'd like to see interviewed??

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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-21 : 03:15:59

I thought it quite amusing that Tony Rogerson was mentioned in one of them - I've met him briefly a couple of times - wonder if he know's he's famous now

steve

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

ws5926
Yak Posting Veteran

88 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-28 : 14:56:33

The first one is 15 years behind in the times. Foxpro back in the DOS days had SQL integrated into the source code. When I talk to VB and SQL Server guys about the basics of Visual Foxpro and they are amazed. I am not sure why Microsoft hasn't pushed VFP more than VB.

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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-30 : 15:25:42

this one is just wow:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=49891
covers astronomy and sql server.... beautiful!!

something for you to see Kristen old chap

Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-01 : 01:34:44

<fx:toddles off>

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-01 : 02:31:12

Yum! The popcorn was good. Interesting movie ... thanks Spirit ... bayesian spacial aware WHERE clauses here I come!

Kristen

spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-01 : 08:22:57

glad you liked it

have you seen part 2?

i think i laughed most when Jim said something like: "Where do you get a TeraByte of data?? So we went to those geo guys and took all of their data and it was still only 600 Gigs..."

Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-01 : 08:49:28

The WorldWideTelescope was pretty good too - "There was this 'integration' event coming up, so we got a bunch of kids and they knocked up some web services in 6 weeks and no one can believe how well it works".

Yup, I reckon I could do with him on my team!

Kristen

spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-01 : 09:19:20

and they only got 2nd place in that competition....
what the hell did the winners come up with???

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