SQL Saturday #43 was held in Redmond, Washington on June 12. It was tons of fun: great sessions, lots of interesting people to meet, and a well organized day where everything happened on time as if by magic.
Update from Kendra (2018)** - Microsoft Connect has been retired. The current feedback system is here: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/908035-sql-server
When it comes to R2, PowerPivot is the big charmer for me. It’s as much fun as my spiralizer, and that’s saying a lot. If you don’t know what a spiralizer is, it’s a magical little piece of plastic with a few blades that lets you turn a zuchinni into super long curly strands of veggie pasta, which makes it suddenly more than normal squash. You can also make curly fries, slice onions, and do all sorts of crazy cool things a normal person can’t make with an ordinary kitchen knife.
I have been plotting sessions that I’d like to present at SQL PASS for a little while now, and the June 5 deadline is approaching. Since I’m on vacation this week, I took some time to write up my abstracts. Man, oh man, that was more work than I thought! Condensing ideas into 1000 characters or less and still saying all you want to say isn’t as easy as it seems.
As for all posts on this blog, this post provides no guarantees for the tools described: use at your own risk, and make sure to test all functionality. This came to mind recently just because I wondered– is there any other free tool that does this better?
Times change, but some things stay the same.
This post is about a really little detail that isn’t a big deal.
I have been working away building out servers in our new prod test environment, and automating as much as possible along the way with PowerShell. I have to say that it’s been really fun and PoSH has brought back that loving feeling that I always had for Perl. If a programming language can be friendly, PowerShell manages it.
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