Rob Farley runs
LobsterPot Solutions, a Gold Partner SQL & BI consultancy in Adelaide, Australia. He presents regularly at PASS chapters and conferences such as TechEd Australia and SQLBits (UK), heads up the
Adelaide SQL Server User Group, sits on the South Australian committee of the Australian Computer Society and has held Microsoft certifications since 1998 (including MCDBA, MCSD, MCPD and MCITP). He is an MCT and has been a SQL Server MVP since 2006. He has helped create several of the MCP exams, and wrote two chapters for the
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, and created the PASS chapter map that can be found on the
PASS website.
StreamInsight is Microsoft's technology for Stream Data Processing and Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this session you will get an overview of what CEP is, what problems it tries to solve and how StreamInsight tries to do it.
Allowing the query optimiser do its job of simplification is an important feature if any database design. In this session, Rob takes us through ways that a database design can leverage features of the query optimiser such as redundant joins and end up with a system the provides a much simpler querying environment.
A look at spatial data visualisation, including the maps in SSRS 2008 R2, handling shapefiles for those of us who have to deal with maps outside the USA, geocoding addresses with Bing, using the Silverlight Bing Maps control, and even PivotViewer.
SARGability relates to the ability to search through an index for a value, but many DB Pros don’t really get it – especially in regard to joins – leading to queries which don’t run as well as they should. No slides here, just demos...
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Eighteen posts for T-SQL Tuesday #43 this month, discussing Plan Operators.
I put them together and made the following clickable plan. It’s 1000px wide, so I hope you have a monitor wide enough.
Let me explain this plan for you (people’s names are the links to the articles on their blogs ...
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Sewing has never been my thing. I barely even know the terminology, and when discussing this with American friends, I even found out that half the words that Americans use are different to the words that English and Australian people use. That said – let’s talk about spools! In particular, the ...
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Back in January, I wrote about some of my “running goals”. It’s time to update those of you who aren’t connected to me on Twitter or Facebook (or weren’t looking on the right days). I mentioned that I wanted to get a better time in a half marathon. Yes. I did that. I ran two half marathons in ...
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June 11th is next week. It’s a Tuesday, the second Tuesday of the month, making it T-SQL Tuesday! This is your opportunity to write on a specific topic, along with countless* people from around the SQL community (* at least until the end of the day, when it will be quite easy to count how many ...
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The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is about the journey. Wendy Pastrick’s choice (I’m hosting again next month!).
There are a lot of journeys. There are some that just keep going, and others that seem to finish (some in success; some in failure). Of course, many of the ones that finish ...
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