{"id":457,"date":"2009-11-08T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2009\/11\/08\/pass-day-3-and-post-con\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T07:19:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:19:03","slug":"pass-day-3-and-post-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2009\/11\/08\/pass-day-3-and-post-con\/","title":{"rendered":"PASS Day 3 and post-con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the pre-con was done I dropped into the SQLCAT sessions on consolidation and virtualisation. Late, because I was cleaning up at the blogger&#8217;s table (Adam wasn&#8217;t there that day). Interesting session, the best-practices were worth noting down and their graphs on performance were encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I was intending to go to Allen&#8217;s clustering session, but it was over my head, so I switched to Buck&#8217;s SQL manageability presentation<\/p>\n<p>Buck Woody&#8217;s session is a laugh-riot. Anyone he knows within view gets picked on. and various groups are getting insulted. Insulted in that session<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Me<\/li>\n<li>British people<\/li>\n<li>South Africans<\/li>\n<li>Developers<\/li>\n<li>U2 fans<\/li>\n<li>Baptists<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>Elderly people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in good humour, no serious insult intended.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the next session, chatted with Brent Ozar. Last of the day was my session on statistics. Audience was a little tired, but the session went quite well. I asked about table sizes and someone claimed a 100 billion row table. I really do want to know what kind of data they&#8217;re storing that generates a table that size.<\/p>\n<p>The post-con day was quiet, in comparison with the days before. I split time between a post-con on semi-structured and unstructured data and some insider sessions. Some cool stuff under discussion in the insider sessions and lots of good debate. The post-con was useful, the part on full-text the most. It&#8217;s not something I&#8217;ve played much with in the past.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s PASS over and done for another year. Same time, same place, next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the pre-con was done I dropped into the SQLCAT sessions on consolidation and virtualisation. Late, because I was cleaning up at the blogger&#8217;s table (Adam wasn&#8217;t there that day). Interesting session, the best-practices were worth noting down and their&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2009\/11\/08\/pass-day-3-and-post-con\/\">(Read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-pass-2009"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-7n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}