Daily Archives Sunday, April 2008

Collaborate Days 0 and 1

Collaborate 08 officially begins today, but I flew in yesterday and got to hang out with Dan and Matt, who were in town early to set up for sessions today.
Thanks to Twitter, I shared a cab from the Denver airport to downtown. The cabbie negotiated $25 each, then tried to change it to $30 when [...]

Choosing An Optimal Stats Gathering Strategy

Greg Rahn has an excellent entry on statistics gathering and the use and abuse of dbms_stats and initialization parameters at the Structured Data blog, one of my favourites. I added a comment on dynamic sampling, of which I am a big proponent, and Greg has another recent post on a case where dynamic sampling saved [...]

Denver is a strange place