Eugene Meidinger stops by the Dear SQL DBA Podcast to chat about Power BI Performance Tuning.
We talk about the various engines and languages used in Power BI and big-picture strategies for getting performance from the start. Eugene then talks about the community of tools and techniques that can be used to dig in and solve performance problems in Power BI.
PASS Summit 2019 starts up next Monday with pre-conference sessions. I’ve got my schedule all set, and I’m going to be busy: I’m speaking in two full-day pre-conference sessions, giving two regular sessions, judging the ever-exciting Speaker Idol competition, and also spending time at the Redgate booth in the expo hall. I scored a little PASS-TV interview to talk about Redgate right before the keynote on the first day.
It’s been more than a year and a half since Robert Davis passed away. I wrote a bit about Robert’s passing last April.
I haven’t written about him since, but I think about Robert a lot.
It’s just ten days until PASS Summit 2019 begins in Seattle. The schedule is up and there are loads of good sessions. Here’s what I’m putting on my calendar to make sure that I don’t miss it: along with some sessions I wish I could attend that I’ll be sure to catch the videos of afterwards.
This post is a part of #tsql2sday, a monthly community ritual where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to join in.
This month’s topic is from Mohammad Darab, who encouraged us to: “Write your 20 year old self a letter. If you could go back in time and give yourself advice, what would it be?”
The advice I would give to my 20 year old self is the same advice I give to myself today, more than 20 years later:
Today I was looped in on an email thread about the pros and cons of attending a specific event. One person on the thread asked if any of us had attended the event in the past, and whether or not event attendees were engaged with presenters and vendor representatives.
My immediate thought was: of course the attendees were engaged, because the event is a SQL Saturday. I’ve never been to a SQL Saturday where the attendees weren’t engaged.
But, I realized that it’s a fair question.
I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout.
This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs of burnout in myself before it becomes a full-fledged disaster. This time, I’m thinking about how I got here, and making an explicit plan to change course.
In hope of helping someone else out there, I thought some public journaling might be in order.
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