>>>Bad news and good news. First, the bad: Cathy Pountney had to pull out of speaking at Southwest Fox this year due to a heavy work load. The good news:
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dbSchema: SQL Server Database Design and Maintenance Made Easy and
PCI Compliance: Facts and Fear. Thanks for stepping up, Tuvia!
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>>Irrevelant with this event,I thought Tuvia as a women all the time until you wrote as "he"... :)
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>>It comes me like a women name....
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>Then the surname would be Vinitska, which it is not. But then this habit of having female versions of surnames which are adjectives is mostly gone in many slavic countries.
It is possible that Tuvia's last name is derived from the name of a city in Ukraine, Vinnytsya, which in Russian and Ukrainian has a female ending. This must have been what confused Metin :)
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