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byrmol
Shed Building SQL Farmer
1591 Posts |
 Posted - 2007-01-30 : 15:36:55
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| For those of you who don't know....Jim Gray (Turing Award winner) has been reported missing while sailing.http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/Wishing for a safe return....DavidMProduction is just another testing cycle |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
38200 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-30 : 16:45:02
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| Now there's a brilliant man. I hope he is found safe very soon.He was one of the speakers at PASS 2005. He made me nervous when he talked about databases being in the exabytes in the near future. I have yet to even support one that is a terabyte.Tara Kizer |
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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer
4149 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-30 : 16:58:28
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| His presentation that year was fantastic. He really made my head spin. Projecting out storage trends twenty years into the future is a little scary. He really, really made me think.===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2886 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-30 : 17:37:51
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I saw him give a very good talk on skyserver at ms once. hope he's ok.
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
11752 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-31 : 05:00:01
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i just loved his videos on channel 9.i hope he's ok.Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow  blog thingie: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-31 : 05:25:01
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| "i just loved his videos on channel 9"Me too. |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
38200 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-31 : 14:37:33
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| http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/missing.sailor.ap/index.htmlTara Kizer |
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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer
4149 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-31 : 14:59:37
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| http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16588282.htm===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer
4149 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-31 : 19:51:07
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| And here's another article: http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicLat/2007/0107/Jan31/Jan31.html#anchor1085433This isn't looking very good.===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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eyechart
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Jim Gray Missing