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  • Jeet Leaps to Victory in Purple Frog Pool Cup Final!

    Jeet Leaps to Victory in Purple Frog Pool Cup Final!June 12th, 2025 in Just For Fun, News

    It was a thrilling showdown in the final of the second Purple Frog Pool Cup, where two Purple Frogs—Jeet and Jon—went head-to-head in a pool match full of skill… and a few near-misses… that had the rest of the FrogPlex holding their breath! After weeks of friendly (and sometimes super competitive) pool games, the tournament reached its peak in a high-stakes final that didn’t disappoint. Both players brought their A-game, but in…

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  • Showdown on the Lily Pad: Matt Takes the Purple Frog Pool Cup

    Showdown on the Lily Pad: Matt Takes the Purple Frog Pool CupMay 24th, 2025 in Just For Fun, News

    The other day, the FrogPlex office pool table transformed into a battleground as the highly anticipated Purple Frog Pool Cup Final took place— Matt vs. Chantal in a showdown worthy of cue-sport legend status. With nerves of steel and a steady hand, Matt hopped ahead early and never looked back, securing the win and the coveted title of Pool Cup Champion. But don’t count Chantal out just yet… She’s already plotting her comeback. The…

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  • Community Speaking Analysis with Power BI

    September 12th, 2017 in Blog, Community, Just For Fun, PowerBI

    Just a short post. During the SQL Saturday Cambridge speaker meal on Saturday night I was chatting with various people at the dinner table. During this time I got asked the question by an event sponsor “do you speak at many of these things?”. While the general answer I gave at the time was yes. It occurred to me that I didn’t have any accurate means of answering the question with some richer detail. Being a data/business…

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  • My Advice for Speaking in the Community

    June 15th, 2017 in Blog, Community

    I wanted to do something a little different with this blog post. I’ve certainly not ran out of technical content to blog about. But I wanted to write something to help all those new speakers out there that are about to stand up at the front of an event and share there knowledge, maybe for the first time, or maybe a veteran speaker that wants to see if they agree with my advice. The former is basically where I found myself about 18 months…

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  • Wearing Four Hats at SQLBits 2017

    April 13th, 2017 in Blog, Community, Just For Fun, Purple Frog Systems

    I know there are lots of great blog posts already out there from great people sharing their experiences from SQLBits. However, I hope none of them can offer an account quite as unique as mine from this years event. Why? Well, most people go to SQLBits as attendee’s to learn, network and socialise. This certainly applies to me. But ‘attendee’ was just 1 of my 4 hats (roles) at SQLBits 2017. In this post I’d like to…

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  • SQL in Seattle – My PASS Summit 2016

    November 20th, 2016 in Blog, Community, Just For Fun

    This year was my first time at the PASS summit in Seattle. I’d of course been to plenty of other community events and conferences, but this was the big one! Spanning 3x days with 15x tracks to choose from in 4x rounds of sessions per day. Excluding precons. Really words don’t do the event or the venue justice. It’s massive. You basically need to see it for yourself. Which leads to the question, why write a blog post about it?…

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  • My SQL Relay 2016

    October 12th, 2016 in Blog, Community, IoT, Just For Fun, Purple Frog Systems

    In 2015 I attended a SQL Relay day in Birmingham, as a humble attendee with a colleague. I sat on the edge of my seat in every session soaking up all I could from the speakers. I remember being in awe of these technical rock stars that gave their knowledge to the community. A community that was strongly bonded and recognised by many sponsors. In 2016 the humble attendee was long gone. I was now heavily involved supporting operational…

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  • SQL Battleships

    June 2nd, 2016 in Blog, Community, Just For Fun, SQL Server

    When Battleships Met SQL Server, like Bailys meeting Coffee, but better. Do you have an equal love of the classic two player board game Battleship and also SQL Server database development? If the answer is yes (which it obviously should be) then this is the blog post for you! The next question that I’m more than happy to answer for you is; how can I combine these 2x loves?… Well my friend, please continue reading to find out. So, let’s…

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