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It's been a while since Yosemite was released and now we are looking forward to the next iteration of the Mac OS X operating system. Wondering what new things we'll get and what will get broken in the process. Dragon Dictate sometimes suffers during an operating system update and when you use it daily, thats a big problem. Yosemite wasn't too bad though and I was able to get the latest and greatest OS X . GPG Tools and in particular the Apple Mail plug in got broken but it didn't take quite so long as it did with Mavericks to get fixed.

In this session, learn how to build and maintain standards-based sites that work great in IE7. Learn how to take advantage of new capabilties such as better HTML and CSS standards support, RSS and Search integration, and new security features.

This document provides tips for using workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. It discusses how to start workflows from within Office applications like Word and Excel, start workflows for any file type, reassign tasks to others, see all tasks in the tasks list, and view workflow tasks in Outlook 2007. The document concludes with questions to test the reader's understanding.

When you pass in a query, how does SQL Server build the results? Time to role play: Brent will be an end user sending in queries, and you will play the part of the SQL Server engine. Using simple spreadsheets as your tables, you will learn how SQL Server builds execution plans, uses indexes, performs joins, and considers statistics. This session is for DBAs and developers who are comfortable writing queries, but not so comfortable when it comes to explaining nonclustered indexes, lookups, and sargability.

You want Relativity to run as fast as possible, but you don't have an unlimited budget. Microsoft Certified Master Brent Ozar will give you real-life stories from shops with high-performance environments. You’ll learn how to choose between virtual and physical servers, understand different high-availability methods, and discover why clustering is such a no-brainer.

SQL Server 2016 will include improvements to availability groups, columnstore indexes, security features, and performance tuning capabilities. Some key updates include: - Availability groups will add support for distributed transaction coordination and faster failover capabilities. - Columnstore indexes will gain update capabilities and the ability to create regular indexes on top of clustered columnstore indexes to improve concurrency. - New security features include row-level security, dynamic data masking, and always encrypted for encrypting sensitive data in the client. - Performance tuning demonstrations showed how to identify and address waits like PAGEIOLATCH through features like columnstore indexes or trace flags to improve query processing speed.

You host Relativity data in SQL Server, and you can't just go buy a new server. You need to figure out where your server's bottleneck is, and find the easiest workaround to make it go faster. Microsoft Certified MasterBrent Ozar will show you how to check your SQL Server's vital stats with free tools, and then determine whether you need indexes, memory, or different config settings.

SQL Server 2016 new features session that I delivered at SQL Relay 2015 at; Reading, London, Cardiff and Birmingham. Looking at some of the new features currently slated for inclusion in the next version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016. Demo Code can be found at: http://1drv.ms/1PC5smY

SQL Server 2016 includes several new features such as columnstore indexes, in-memory OLTP, live query statistics, temporal tables, and row-level security. It also features improved manage backup functionality, support for multiple tempdb files, and new ways to format and encrypt query results. Advanced capabilities like PolyBase and Stretch Database further enhance analytics and management of historical data.

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The document summarizes new features in SQL Server 2016 SP1, organized into three categories: performance enhancements, security improvements, and hybrid data capabilities. It highlights key features such as in-memory technologies for faster queries, always encrypted for data security, and PolyBase for querying relational and non-relational data. New editions like Express and Standard provide more built-in capabilities. The document also reviews SQL Server 2016 SP1 features by edition, showing advanced features are now more accessible across more editions.

1) Paula Brantner survived two major website redesigns for Workplace Fairness as an employment lawyer without formal technology training. 2) Key lessons included not needing a huge budget, knowing why you're redesigning, making it a priority project, and understanding your audience better than anyone. 3) Content is the most important part of any website - it must be written for an online audience and be easily accessible.

This document provides an overview of using social media for real estate business purposes. It discusses the basics of social media and why agents should use platforms like Facebook, WordPress, LinkedIn and Twitter. It recommends setting up profiles on each platform over 4 weeks, spending 30 minutes per day on one platform, to gradually learn how to use multiple social media programs without spending all day on them. The document stresses that real estate agents' use of social media must comply with regulations.

The document discusses how to effectively use LinkedIn for networking and career development. It provides tips for completing your LinkedIn profile, engaging your network through the FIRE method of finding companies of interest, identifying contacts, reaching out to them, and ultimately engaging with decision makers. Additionally, it offers best practices for using LinkedIn features, maintaining an active online presence through regular updates, and tracking the success of one's networking efforts on the platform.

Google Drive is a collaboration tool that allows users to store, share, and edit files in the cloud. It offers unlimited storage and integration with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from any device. Maintaining a digital presence on LinkedIn is also important. It functions as an online resume where users can showcase their experience and skills. Connecting to others on LinkedIn helps expand one's professional network and learn from experts in different fields. Together, collaboration tools and digital presence make it possible for users to work together online and promote themselves professionally.

Ben Hall is a hacker in residence at Cornershop and founder of previous startups. He discusses his approach to starting new ventures, which focuses on rapidly validating ideas by building minimum viable products and releasing early to test assumptions and learn from customers and metrics. Some of his key advice includes failing fast when ideas don't work, focusing on acquisition metrics over features, and prioritizing speed of delivery over perfect code in the early stages. The presentation emphasizes learning through quick iteration and putting products in front of customers as soon as possible.

Low and No Cost Tools for managing every day processes in organisations. From ffice processes to remote working, online presence and Social Media. How to do more with less.

This document provides information about various community organizing tools including 501 Tech Clubs, Communities of Practice, and volunteer organizers. It discusses using Microsoft Office for mass email campaigns, including building contact lists in Excel, writing email copy in Word, and personalizing emails using Outlook mail merge. The document also covers using text expansion utilities to increase productivity, tools for creating training and instructional videos like Jing, planning Twitter chats, and an introduction to using Google Drive and Docs for document collaboration and file storage.

The document discusses various tools for capturing backchannel conversations and taking online notes, including microblogging applications like Twitter and Edmodo. It explains that microblogging tools like Twitter can be used to share small updates and comments, while Edmodo and TodaysMeet provide private spaces for classroom discussions and note-sharing. Guidelines are suggested for grading student participation in microblogging. Diigo and Evernote are also presented as tools to store and annotate bookmarks as well as clip content from websites for note-taking purposes. The document encourages exploring these tools before the next meeting.

Your users may struggle with these questions: • Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange? • Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list? • Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site? What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist. In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.

The document discusses the emerging role of social software within IBM and its use to foster collaboration and innovation. It outlines IBM's transition to more informal and open culture and describes various social tools and platforms adopted by employees, from internal instant messaging and blogs to experimental uses of metaverse environments and reputation systems. It highlights IBM's Technology Adoption Program for encouraging early adoption of new tools and sharing of internally developed solutions.

This document provides guidance on laying a solid foundation for one's job search before graduating. It recommends that students begin this process during their junior year or one year before graduating. The key elements are to 1) determine what type of job is wanted through self and career assessments, 2) build a strong professional network using tools like LinkedIn, and 3) create a specific action plan that leverages different job search approaches and technology. Specific action items include completing skills and career assessments, setting up and optimizing a LinkedIn profile, reading books on job searching, conducting informational interviews, and using job search management platforms.

This document provides a 13 step system for starting a successful blog. It discusses why people should blog, including helping others, gaining expertise, and connecting with an audience. Common reasons blogs fail are also outlined, such as being inconsistent, off-brand, or not engaging readers. The 13 steps include defining your personal brand and topics, writing initial posts, adding visuals, selecting a domain name and platform, adding calls to action, designing your site, moving content over, and linking social media to drive traffic and engagement. Consistency, great content, and using both social media and search are emphasized as keys to success.

Expand Socially offered this training at the RoundTable group in Cincinnati to job seekers in August 2011.

Remote work is exciting, fun, and different from office work. Getting into communication rhythms and making sure your team is performing well is not always easy. In this webinar, Adam Walker from the digital agency Sideways8 shares what he learned from running a company for 10years that never had an office. He'll talk about how to think about remote work, the levels of communication to consider, and how to create a communications rhythm that will work for your team.

Clare Corthell, Data Scientist and Designer at Mattermark, and author of the Open Source Data Science Masters, shares her experience teaching herself data science with online resources. http://datasciencemasters.org/

Lots of project teams have tried out personas. Not all succeed. In this session, I’ll outline a range of projects (both system and website development) over the past 5 years in which I’ve used personas to bring consensus and user focus to the team delivering. I’ll run through some challenges I’ve faced, and the techniques I’ve tried to overcome them.

This is a crowd-sourced repository of all possible hacks for a developer's career growth. Combine a couple of them as your time allows and you will have a great recipe to the next level in your career. For this research, we compiled our knowledge base and also specifically crowdsourced diverse ideas & opportunities from technology leaders in different stages of their careers to build this map for developer careers.

This document discusses how small or unique libraries can use Web 2.0 technologies to engage different audiences, display content in new ways, and pull in new users. It provides examples of popular Web 2.0 tools like blogging, mapping, wikis, social cataloging, and more. The document also outlines potential obstacles to implementation and provides tips to overcome them, such as having clear goals, addressing concerns, evaluating projects, and more.

The document provides tips on building a personal brand online, including maintaining consistent profiles across platforms like blogs, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It emphasizes creating interesting and engaging content, networking actively both online and offline, and offering value to others in order to build professional connections and opportunities. The overall focus is on using social media strategically to showcase one's work and expertise.

The document provides guidance on online tools and strategies for job searching, including profiles on job boards, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. It discusses using these platforms to research companies, connect with contacts, find job postings, and develop expertise. It also covers expectations for connectivity if provided a company laptop or phone, including responding to emails promptly and having basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and communication apps.

You’ve been working with Microsoft SQL Server for a couple of years, and you know a little bit about TempDB. You’ve heard that temp tables and table variables have different performance characteristics than regular user database tables, and you’ve heard that you’re supposed to have multiple data files. You’re wondering what exactly goes on behind the scenes.

Brent Ozar's class on Microsoft SQL Server columnstore indexes. Learn more: https://brentozar.com/go/columnfund

You're a C# or Java developer building an application that stores data in Microsoft SQL Server, and you want to avoid common pitfalls that will cause you scalability problems down the road. In this session from my live stream, you'll learn why you probably want to avoid triggers, SELECT *, user-defined functions, dynamic SQL, big datatypes, heaps, storing binaries in the database, old indexes, TempDB, and SQL Server's v1 features.

You keep getting warnings and emails about deadlocks, but let's be honest: you're not really sure how they happen or what to do about it. I'm Brent Ozar, and I can help. I'll show you how to build a deadlock in just a few lines of T-SQL so you can see how SQL Server reacts. You'll be more comfortable with the decisions SQL Server takes, and when you can safely ignore 'em. When you can't ignore 'em, you'll learn how to analyze them with free tools (sp_BlitzLock and SentryOne Plan Explorer), and how to fix them with index and code changes.

Your company is ignoring the news: SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2 are officially out of support as of today, but nothing's changing at your company. You still have SQL Server 2008 in production, and you're a little nervous. How should you approach the conversations with management? Brent Ozar will help: he's been there too, fighting managers who want to leave an old server hiding in the corner. We'll role play: you be the manager, and Brent will show his techniques for convincing management to take the plunge and move to a newer SQL Server version.

Distributed source control is really intimidating: branches, pull requests, merges - will somebody just take my code, for crying out loud? Why does it have to be so complicated and involved? I'm with you: I'm Brent Ozar, and I hated GitHub. For years, I struggled with it, but I've come to a gradual truce. I'm not a GitHub pro by any means, but in the span of one session, I can explain the most important terms to you in a way that'll make sense for non-developers. I'll show you how to contribute to someone else's open source project, and how to get started putting your own scripts under source control.

You’re a developer or a DBA, and you’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. You’re much less comfortable trying to design the right indexes for your database server. In this series of videos, you’ll learn how the SQL Server engine looks at your indexes and builds your query results.

The query optimizer's role is to transform SQL queries into efficient execution plans by: 1) Enumerating logically equivalent query plans through equivalence rules. 2) Enumerating physical execution plans for each logical plan. 3) Estimating the costs of each physical plan by estimating predicate selectivities and operator costs. 4) Selecting the physical plan with the lowest estimated cost to run the query.

This document discusses best practices for building fast stored procedures that accept multiple parameters. It begins by describing a common business need to build a search page and outlines four approaches to building the stored procedure: 1) using OR conditions, 2) COALESCE, 3) dynamic SQL, 4) combining OR and dynamic SQL. Each approach is demonstrated with examples and limitations are discussed. While dynamic SQL allows for different execution plans per parameter combination, it can lead to bloating the plan cache and potential parameter sniffing issues. The document recommends techniques for troubleshooting dynamic SQL like using comments and debug variables.

It strikes fear in your heart: "Transaction was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim." Learn the basics of how SQL Server handles blocking, locking, and deadlocking.

Warning: this is not an introductory session. These are going to be tough problems. You've been performance tuning queries and indexes for a few years, but lately, you've been running into problems you can't explain. Could it be RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE, THREADPOOL, or lock escalation? These problems only pop up under heavy load or concurrency, so they're very hard to detect in a development environment. In a very fast-paced session, I'll show these three performance problems pop up under load. I won't be able to teach you how to fix them for good - not inside the span of 75 minutes - but at least you'll be able to recognize the symptoms when they strike, and I'll show you where to go to learn more.