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  • PASS Summit and MVP Summit 2015

    November 7th, 2015 in Blog, Community

    I’m currently sitting in Seattle-Tacoma airport waiting for BA048 to take me home, and coming to terms with what an amazing couple of weeks I’ve been fortunate to have. The PASS Summit I had the honour of being selected to speak at the PASS Summit last week, the biggest SQL Server conference in the World, with I believe in the region of 5,500 attendees. I’ve been a regular speaker at lots of the European events (SQL Bits, SQL…

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  • New Azure User Group in Birmingham

    April 14th, 2015 in Blog, Cloud, Community

    We’re launching a new Azure user group in Birmingham, UK! The first session is on Thursday 16th April, 6.30pm at the MAC (Midlands Art Centre) next to Edgbaston Cricket Ground. The first session will feature two of the most prominent Azure MVPs in the UK; Richard Conway (Blog | Twitter) and Andy Cross (Blog | Twitter). With Cloud based solutions becoming ever more prevalent, focusing on providing free Azure training and information for the…

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  • Why you should start presenting at conferences

    August 17th, 2014 in Blog, Community

    Have you presented a session at a user group or a conference? No? then read on to find out why you need to change that. Many of the readers of this blog will be active members of the SQL Server community, reading/writing blogs themselves, going to conferences or user groups, partitipating in webinars, etc. We’re fortunate in the UK to have the most active SQL Server community in the World. Yes there are physically more user groups and…

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  • SQL Relay Interview

    June 5th, 2013 in Blog, Community

    A while back Richard Douglas interviewed me regarding my role as Chair of the SQL Relay 2013 conferences. You can read the resulting interview here! There’s only two weeks to go before the Relay starts in Glasgow, before travelling onto Leeds, Birmingham, Norwich, Cardiff, Reading and London. There are some spaces left at a few of the events, but register quick to make sure you don’t miss out! We’ve got Microsoft’s SQL…

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  • SQL Relay 2013

    May 13th, 2013 in Blog, Community

    SQL Relay 2013 is only a month away! If you’ve not signed up yet to SQL Relay 2013 then you’d better get in there quick, as 2 of the 8 events are already full… What is SQL Relay? A series of 8 SQL Server conferences around the UK, held between 17th June and 27th June. They are FREE to attend (thanks to the generous sponsors!), and each contains a full day of technical talks covering different aspects of SQL Server. Who’s…

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  • Database Management PhD survey

    December 18th, 2012 in Blog, Community, SQL Server

    If you’re involved in database management, can you spare 20 minutes to complete a survey? Victoria Holt is studying for her PhD, and would very much appreciate it if you could help her out with her survey. Go on… Fill it in whilst you have a break over a cup of tea & a mince pie… Full in the survey here On behalf of Victoria, thanks

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  • Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

    October 5th, 2012 in Blog, Community, SQL Server

      I want to share with you some genius level work by Phil Quinn (blog | twitter), who is furthering the boundaries of SQL Server.   Phil has taken the spatial drawing code from an earlier Frog-blog and used it to create a fully functional Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock game, just using the power of SQL Server. Not even the brightest boffins at Microsoft could ever have imagined that SQL Server would be able to provide such an awesome…

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  • Still time to register for SQL Saturday 162 in Cambridge

    August 28th, 2012 in Blog, Community

    Just a quick reminder, if you haven’t registered already then get yourself to the SQL Saturday website and register for the UK’s first ever SQL Saturday, in Cambridge on Sept 8th 2012. The presenter/session line-up is awesome – check out the schedule here. I’ll be presenting a talk at 3:50pm on a better way to load data warehouse dimensions. I’m also proud to say that Purple Frog are sponsoring the event. There…

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  • Speaking at SQL Saturday 162 in Cambridge

    August 1st, 2012 in Blog, Community

    I’m thrilled to have been selected to speak at the UK’s first SQL Saturday event – A big thank you to the organisers, I’ll already buzzing about it! SQL Saturday #162 is being held in the fabulous city of Cambridge, with two days of awesome content. Pre-Con Training Day: Friday 7th September 2012 Free SQL Saturday: Saturday 8th September 2012 Full details on the SQL Saturday website here. I’ll be reviving my talk…

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  • SQLBits X Video available

    June 19th, 2012 in Blog, Business Intelligence, Community, Integration Services, SQL Server

    SQLBits X Video Now available The video of my talk at SQLBits X is now available on the SQLBits website here. The talk was focused on presenting the results of my MSc Business Intelligence dissertation, comparing the performance of different methods of using SSIS to load data warehouse dimensions, specifically type 2 SCDs. The talk also covers a comparison of the performance between traditional hard disks and solid state storage systems such as…

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