On Amtrak, one hour out of Chicago, and excited to attend the Red Gate Summit! Can't wait to see all the great folks, including @way0utwest and @GFritchey!
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Hi. If you wouldn't mind, my grandson's class is working on a geography project, sending Flat Stanley around the world. Would you be so kind as to take a picture of Stanley in your part of the world, and send it to his teacher, Mrs Dean, at mdean@bcsoh.org? Thanks!
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More Fall Golf. The scenery was better than my game. 🤣
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Windows and siding done. Before (beige) and After (grey):
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My copy arrived yesterday! Excellent work @cl @sqldbawithbeard @JessPomfret et. al. And thanks for a great community resource! @psdbatools #PowerShell
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Solstice golf. Started at 5:30am. Finished at 9pm. 90 holes in 15.5 hours, and finished with a birdie (with a gallery of the guys in my league watching from the clubhouse.)
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@sqlcheesecake My view of the game today. It was sweet!
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Skull Session with the Ohio State marching band and the Port Clinton High School marching band. A grand tradition.
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Getting ready for the #Buckeyes game against Purdue!
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Replying to @SQLRunr
@SQLGene But how can you not love scenes like this? (From my round on Saturday.)
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My session "Tackling Monster Stored Procs" is the last session in the Query Tuning Learning Pathway passdatacommunitysummit.com/learning-pathw… - Join us at the #PASSCommunitySummit! Register here: bit.ly/3BqhsEB #sqlpass
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Replying to @MMarie
@MMarie Took this one this morning:
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"Breakfast Buddies" with my grandson, his best friend, and his best friend's mom. Grandparenting is awesome!
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Replying to @DBABullDog
@DBABullDog @TBLightning I posted this on FB Monday night.
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Thank you Microsoft! 15 years, and still excited to receive this award!
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Yesterday John and I completed a grueling section of the #BuckeyeTrail, 18 miles on the road from Wellington to Wakeman. (We avoided the craziness in Wellington.)
It was lots of farm country, with a pretty view of the Vermilion River from a foot bridge in Wakeman at the end.
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Today's adventure: kayaking down the Cuyahoga River through the @CVNPNPS. Took the @CVSRR to Station Road Bridge and paddled back 7.67 miles to my car.
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With today's 15.54 mile hike with John on the #BuckeyeTrail, I've completed what's known as the "Little Loop", the roughly 250 mile section in the northeast corner of the trail. About half was road hiking, but the other half was single-track trail in the West Branch State Park.
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9.75 miles from the south side of Ravenna to Mogadore Reservoir along the #BuckeyeTrail this morning with John. After 6.75 miles on the road, the last 3 were on single-track trail, and that made up for all the road time - it was beautiful.
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Though it was all road hiking today, John and I covered 9.32 miles on the #BuckeyeTrail between Ravenna and Mantua, through Shalersville. Not much to see other than a pretty horse farm.
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Our hike on the #BuckeyeTrail today went from north of Hiram, 11.7 miles on road and trail, into the center of Mantua. (Home of Jack Lambert of the Pittsburgh Steelers.) We hiked roads, trails, through a campground, and finished mostly on a rails-to-trails path.
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Hiked 15.9 miles on the #BuckeyeTrail today in the Mogadore area. Went past the actual Goodyear Blimp hangar, and while the first 10 miles were on the road, the last 5+ along Mogadore Reservoir were gorgeous!
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On a gorgeous day, John Sobolewski and I covered 13 miles on the #BuckeyeTrail, from a little north of Hiram, through the center of Burton, up to the entrance to Headwaters Park at the East Branch Reservoir.
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Another great hike of 11.86 miles this morning along the #BuckeyeTrail with John Sobolewski, south of Chardon. Pictures include a lovely view of the East Branch Reservoir at Headwaters Park, a red barn (because who doesn't love red barns?) and a beaver lodge!
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Just over 10 miles on the #BuckeyeTrail today, with a loop from Hartville, where I enjoyed the little donuts from "Peace, Love, and Little Donuts" as an after-hike treat! Love hiking in the early spring as the buds come out.
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Hey @FedEx, how much extra are you costing @Wayfair with your shoddy delivery service? Bathroom vanity came in more pieces than expected. Kudos to @Wayfair for replacing it promptly.
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Hiked 7.7 miles this morning, with 5.4 on the #BuckeyeTrail south of Painesville. The Girdled Road Reservation had really interesting trails (and a cool bridge!)
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Another 10.4 miles on the #BuckeyeTrail, finally completing the Bedford section, hiking between Mentor and Fairport Harbor. Never realized the extent of Mentor Marsh. Wow! I also had to get a selfie at the northern terminus of the Trail.
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Hiked 8.2 miles along the #BuckeyeTrail with John Sobolewski. Some road hiking but a lot of trail hiking in both Chapin Forest and Penitentiary Glen parks.
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Replying to @DesertIsleSQL
@DesertIsleSQL The trail is a 1440 mile track that circumnavigates the state. More details here:
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6.3 mile hike on the #BuckeyeTrail today. All road, but got closer to completing the Bedford section of the trail today. Interesting sights included a commemorative stone to Levi Smith, 1774 to 1820, and a really interesting Tudor-style house and associated buildings.
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Day 4 - Last #Golf Day - Talking Stick Golf Club, O'odham Course. Flat, wide-open course today, well maintained. Shot a 90, for my best round of the week! Really a great trip, but looking forward to getting home now.
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Day 3 - Rancho Manana Golf Club in Cave Creek AZ. A bit chillier today, and the course was a lot tighter. Only used the driver a couple of times. Still shot a 92, though, so that was good. #Golf
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Day 2 - Desert Canyon Course. Very pretty course. Some challenging holes, no 'grip it & rip it' holes, shot a 92, with a birdie on 17. #Golf
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First day out - Dove Valley Ranch course. Shot a 95, not bad for the first round since November. It was 72F and sunny, so that's a huge plus! #Golf
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@LisaGB_sql @AngelaTidwell I took these pics yesterday in the Chagrin River MetroParks.
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A little waterfall on a creek in the Sand Run Metro Park on the #BuckeyeTrail north of Akron, OH @metro_parks
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A creek in Findley State Park on the #BuckeyeTrail, Wellington, Ohio @OhioStateParks
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Replying to @erinstellato
@erinstellato @DBArgenis Here's the map in 2008 - I was in the 9th then.
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Please enjoy this performance by the @COChorus and members of the @CleveOrchestra of the Dona Nobis Pacem from Bach's Mass in D Minor. (Yes, I'm in the video.) Happy Holidays! youtube.com/watch?v=qa3f8j…
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It is such a privilege to be part of @COChorus - this video tells 3 very personal stories of friends of mine in the chorus. Please share. youtube.com/watch?v=XRmoq7… @CleveOrchestra
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Also TIL - A group called The Vandals have one called "Oi! To The World" - youtube.com/watch?v=oKk-2P…
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TIL - there's a Christmas song called "Big Bulbs", as in "Baby you got them Big Bulbs". I won't complain about Grandma being run over or Dominick the Donkey ever again. youtu.be/uL19eKEa3CY
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Replying to @jpomfret
@jpomfret @erinstellato @AMtwo @Kendra_Little @IrishSQL Never tried those places. Once for my daughter's birthday we got her a maple cream stick cake from there. Was huge, and oh, so good. Here's a picture of one of their regular ones.
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Yesterday I completed my goal of hiking the Towpath Trail along the Ohio and Erie Canal, all 86 miles. Time for a new hiking goal.
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I tought people how to do a server-side trace in my session to see queries & perfmon data together. Go to GitHub and upvote my request, to be able to do this with Extended Events!
github.com/microsoft/azur…
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Replying to @Hugo_Kornelis
@Hugo_Kornelis And I did register for your session, so here's what I see:
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@sqlmal @Hugo_Kornelis @osorio33 @TracyBoggiano Here's what I get when I hover over the Presentation Slides button on Kevin's precon (I haven't registered for his session):
So expect that the Live Stream button will be enabled for your session tomorrow when it goes live.
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Lately I've been exploring different kinds of locks. (On the Ohio & Erie Canal, Canal Fulton, Ohio)
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
@BrianRoemmele @_randolph_west I bought this deck in 1977 or 78. I took the picture 5 minutes ago. 🤣
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I think some tuning is in order here:
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Don't forget that the price for PASS Pro increases on Wednesday!

go2.pass.org/v0010fbN0yuHQ0…
#sqlpass
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Took the grandsons for a ride today on the @CVSRR - lovely way to enjoy the fall colors and welcome back the railroad! #RideCVSR
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It's fun seeing SQL Server memory usage right after a reboot of a production server.
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Picnic supplied by the @forcvnp for their Picnic in the Park fundraiser. It was way too good. :-)
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Denver friends, you've got a real gem in your Music Director @maestromitchell - here's a new video with Brett, his wife, soprano Angela Mitchell, and a virtual ensemble of Colorado Symphony musicians, exploring Mahler's Ninth Symphony. youtube.com/watch?v=Hgz3Sd…
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I participated in something cool earlier this year, and it was finally released, and it came out pretty well, I think. #IMissSinging
youtube.com/watch?v=-59yHk…
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Oh boy!
(Yes, it's a production server.)
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Last one, only closeup. Too bad it's so dark you can't see how skinny I was back then.(155lbs)
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Ooh, here's a better one. I'm fifth from the left, with the crooked bow tie!
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Can you find the 24yo me in this photo?
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Replying to @DBAKevlar
@DBAKevlar I took this picture last Sunday in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, just south of Cleveland.
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A followup to yesterday, there were two procs that were causing the spikes in waits. I corrected one yesterday, and the other one today.
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Can you tell where I deployed my tuned version of the stored proc?
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Can you tell where I disabled the (poorly performing) job?
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Last night members of the @COChorus met virtually. It was our first meet up since our final concert in early March. It was great to see the folks again, and sad that singing is one of the worst ways to transmit the virus.
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Replying to @way0utwest
@way0utwest @united Lots of 4 out of 5, but no bingo.
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