SSWUG SQL Server Expo – June 25th
The Expo, Real-World Data Management with SQL Server from SSWUG.ORG is a free event, open to all. The expo will include sessions on SQL Server from top-name presenters. These are encore presentations of top-rated sessions from the Virtual Conference – released to the community during this expo event. Learn about how you can maximize the value from your SQL Server investment and give your users what they need from your systems. Available for 7 days beginning Friday, June 28th at 9am PST.
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Jump start working with Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5
Installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Managing it from SQL Server Management studio is described in detail.
More Feedback and Thoughts on Billing for Processing Time
Gary wrote in with his impressions about billing and the way things are heading… "Yes, well, that’s a two edged sword. On the one hand most every user wants the internet free. On the other, the people supplying content and services have to pay.
What they pay can be either a fixed price amount, in which case the people that think they are lite users feel cheated. Or they can pay a per usage amount in which case the people think they are being nickel and dimed to death, not realizing they are actuality using that much or how much it really costs. And of course the bean counters may think that since the per unit price is so small they can bump it up a bit so the bootom line may actually be a bit more than the fixed price was and nobody will notice. Gosh, I remember when documentation for the IBM 360 and 370 was free for anyone that knew the part numbers to order it. And even the ones that weren’t free didn’t cost that much."
There are benefits to the whole bill for usage thing, and certainly it’s one option going forward (and probably the only option that really makes a lot of sense for cloud usage). I just hope we don’t go ALL the way back to "all the functionality lives in the cloud and your workstation is a dumb terminal" – egad.
I like to think we evolve our solutions, not cycle them. Sure, similarities, but we need to learn from the best of what we’re doing and apply it to evolve. I worry that we’re already headed in the direction of the equivalent of dumb terminals with netbooks, web-based applications and so-on. Again, I do think there are big benefits, I just hope we learn about what worked – smart systems talking to smart systems – and what didn’t work so well – ALL work on the mainframe, er, I mean cloud.
Free Webcast:
Best practices for Analysis Services administration
This session takes you on a end-to-end tour of management features for Analysis Services. Along the way, you’ll learn important best practices direct from the product team about how to configure, optimize and manage your Analysis Server. We expect this to be an essential session for new and experienced Analysis Services administrators alike.
Presented by: Donald Farmer
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> Live date: 6/23/2010 at 12:00 Pacific