June 2009 - Posts

• Only a few days left to qualify for the "Best things I learned at the PASS summit" competition

  I'm really looking forward to the upcoming PASS summit in Seattle. I know it's a tough year for funds and training, etc. but (particularly for those that travel from a distance), this is likely to be the year offering the lowest cost travel options for Read More... Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 11:18 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• Writing code with speech recognition

  Speech recognition technology has intrigued me for years but never seemed to live up to its promise. It always seemed to me to have more potential where a very limited grammar was involved, rather than attempting complex work like writing freeform prose. Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:39 PM by Greg Low | 2 Comments

• Catching up with SQL Server Girl

  While we were at TechEd in LA, Mai and I got to catch up with an old friend: Read More... Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 8:47 AM by Greg Low | 1 Comments

• SQL Server 2008 Full Text Indexing - Working out how many documents still need to be processed

  I had a query from an attendee of my full-text indexing session at TechEd US. He asked how he can find out which documents (or how many) still need to be processed. I did a little investigation on this and here's my best guess: <WARNING: Undocumented Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:35 PM by Greg Low | 3 Comments