The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
- Mike Chrestensen
Notes: Questions and Topics
Upcoming TriPASS Elections
We have three seats on the TriPASS board up for election this November: President (me), VP of Marketing (Rick Pack), and Treasurer (Mala). Nominations are open, so if you are a TriPASS member on the Meetup, reach out to me if you are interested in running for one of the board seats. Rick, Mala, and I are running but if you want to throw your hat into the ring, you are welcome to do so.
Voting will start on the 3rd Thursday in November and run through the first Thursday in December. Terms will begin in February of 2023 and run for 2 years.
Get Well, Hugo
Mala brought up the next topic: we hope Hugo Kornelis, who has been blogging about his health problems, makes a full recovery.
SQL Server 2022 RC1
SQL Server 2022 RC1 was quietly released last week. It doesn’t look like there are new features, just bugfixes. We’re getting close to RTM.
Non-Surrogate Surrogate Keys
Our next major topic was around people who use surrogate keys in a way which imputes business value. For example, values greater than 0 in a table represent user-defined information and values less than 0 represent system-defined information. We talked about why this might happen, what it can do to query development, and some alternatives.