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Happy New Year Update – and OOF
Happy new year everyone. First of all, thanks for staying in touch and reading my site. According to Google Analytics, I have over 27K unique page hits and there is a steady traffic of over 50 hits/day...
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The Hollywood Business Model is Broken
Last week, I watched “The Avengers”. Very nice movie, recommended. Why then, do I feel the need to rant today and tell the movie industry where to stick their business model? Let me give you some...
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Moving on from Microsoft
Not too long ago, I handed in my notice to Microsoft, terminating my employment mid-June 2012. I suspect this is slowly leaking out on the Twitter and Facebook these hours – as is tradition in the...
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How to Properly Wipe and Return a Laptop
This week, I had the chance to experience something that is a rare occurrence: returning a laptop to my employer. Microsoft has been good to me, and I wanted to make sure I properly returned the laptop...
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Open for Business!
Today, 22nd June, is my last day at Microsoft. This means that I will be open for business from Monday 25th June 2012. I will take on short term consulting contracts (including subcontracting if you...
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Speaking in Dublin on Thursday 5th July
I am visiting a customer in Ireland and the good people in Prodata took the chance to set up a SQL User Group meeting while I am there. I look forward to meeting both old friend and making new ones...
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Joining FusionIo
I am very happy to announce that I have signed a contract with FusionIo and will be joining them as CTO of EMEA from 1st September 2012. As many of you know, I have worked together with FusionIo on...
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First publicly available courses –in Aarhus, Denmark – 23-24 October
I am pleased to announce that both my Tuning Course and the Data Warehouse Modeling course will be run in Aarhus Denmark. The courses will be held in English, even though they are hosted in the very...
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Sharing Slides on SlideShare.net
Hey everyone. Just a short post to let you know I am now sharing some of my slide decks from conferences at SlideShare. Here is the URL: http://www.slideshare.net/tkejser1 Some things I put there so...
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More Courses Available – in Sweden and UK!
I am happy to announce that my tuning course and newly developed Data Warehousing course is now available. Tuning/Scaling Course The tuning course will be hosted by CrossJoin Consulting in London, UK...
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The Curse of Self-Service
These days, we seem to be high on data and data related trends. My opinion on Big Data should be well known to my readers: it is something that has to be carefully managed and largely a fad for all but...
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My Final SQL Server Presentations (until further Notice)
As my regular readers have noticed, activity on my blog has slowed down lately. My new job at Livedrive is keeping me very busy and excited. It’s the opportunity I have been looking for: right in the...
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Curious Partition Function Behaviour
Just another short blog today describing a curious issue I found with a query plan this week and a “workaround”. In our core system, we have a table with two partitions. One partition contains all the...
View ArticleMarkets – Another View
It seems all of Britain is watching TV and the Internet this Sunday, catching up in the news on a downgraded US and waiting for the opening of a stock market that has once again fallen apart. I am on...
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A Mobile Phone – How Hard can it be?
I have recently switched to iPad as my primary device for media viewing, music, book reading, email and to some extend blogging (though I still find Live Writer superior and even run VMware Fusion on...
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OT: Optimizing Skyrim
The winter solstice peace has finally settled and I am heading up North, Scotland, to indulge in good food, good company and great amounts of Whiskey. In the little spare time I had the last month, I...
View ArticleNeat trick on United Airlines
Thanks to everyone for a great PASS US – I had a lot of fun at the conference. Today, I am heading to Japan. My ticket is an economy ticket, and it is a long flight (around 12h). The price for a...
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Making the Best Use of PowerPoint Slides
This week, I presented at the InsightOut conference in Tokyo, Japan. The experience has been amazing. I met a lot of interesting people from different database platforms. I would like to share some...
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Improving Slide Layouts– A Case Study
Very soon, it is conference time again, at SQLBits. As our team is preparing for this big event, I took a hard look at the slides we are using and the design we apply. While you may argue that spending...
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Happy New Year Update – and OOF
Happy new year everyone. First of all, thanks for staying in touch and reading my site. According to Google Analytics, I have over 27K unique page hits and there is a steady traffic of over 50 hits/day...
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