Brent Ozar Unlimited® Weekly Links, September 15th Edition

Our version of Fashion Week is making it to Friday without spilling food and coffee on our clothes. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Brent's Links Math via Gifs Animated gifs that teach math. Reminds me of why I bailed out of college. Finance via Maps 38 maps that explain the economy. And for us dumb Americans in the audience, we'll need to learn geography just to understand the maps. Music via Visualizations I never appreciated the complexity of classical music until I watched the first sixty seconds of Beethoven's Eroica done by the Music Animation Machine. Jeremiah's Links The Silent Line Documenting a 160 year old Parisian railway in pictures. The Database Reading List CS286 is UC's definitive course in building a database. The reading list is online and ready for you. If you're at all curious about how databases work, check it out. Ten Tips for IT Professionals These 10 tips have made me a better nerd Kendra's Links The Age Old Question: Left or Right? Grant Fritchey tells you where to put your SQL Server functions. How Queries are Processed in SQL Server Adam Machanic walks you through it in this class post from 2011, with pictures. 8 Characteristics of DevOps I agree that #3 is the most important. Brent on a Great new Microsoft KB article: Recommended SQL Server Updates and Trace Flags Brent to Developers: Who Needs a DBA? [Video] Jes wants you to Get in the (SQL Server) Community Spirit [Video] One form to register for them all: September 16: Top 5 Tips for Your First Presentation September 17: What Queries are Killing My Server? September 23: Introducing sp_BlitzRS September 30: The L-Word: Licensing October 7: Choosing a Cloud Deployment Model October 14: How to Find Wasted Memory in SQL Server Seriously, all free right here. Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Subscribe to Our Feed  follow on Twitter | subscribe to our feed | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2014 Brent Ozar Unlimited��, All rights reserved. We're sending you this because you signed up for the BrentOzar.com Community. If you no longer want these community recaps, please unsubscribe. We're all about staying at Inbox Zero too. Our mailing address is: Brent Ozar Unlimited�� 9450 SW Gemini Dr ECM #45799 Beaverton, OR 97008 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences