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A BarCamp is where about 100 web geeks spend all weekend together discussing what’s hot and what’s not, and the latest one has just finished at Ebay’s very cool Richmond offices. The idea is to give a chat on any topic , for example I saw
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Quite a few people have asked me where the decks are for the SQL Server unleashed event and I now have an answer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb945096.aspx which I need to put on my blog so I can also remember myself! Also we have filmed this and
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Thanks to everyone who came along to celebrate SQL Server 2008 at our unleashed event yesterday and especially to the audience who volunteered to sit in the overflow room as we had a few AV niggles. As you can see above image David Hobbs-Mallyon
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I have done a blogcast and a few posts around the configuration servers in the betas of SQL Server 2008, however in SQL Server 2008 as released these are now called Central Management Servers. For those of you who have held off form trying
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If you glance to the side of this post you will see that one of the few books on my bookshelf is the Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit , and so I am annoyed that I can’t make the course of the book, presented by the authors, Joy Mundy and Warren Thornthwaite
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Following on from yesterday’s post, I wanted to encourage the DBA’s to demonstrate your influencing skills by persuading your managers to support your careers by sending you to TechED EMEA for IT Professionals, 3-7 November 2008 in Barcelona. If you haven’t
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The UK SQL community are doing their next SQL Bits cubed on Saturday 13th Sept at Hatfield University. Possible excuses for NOT attending would be: You are reading this blog not because you are a highly skilled DBA but: You like my witty style You
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I am now hard at work on the events that will occur around the release SQL Server 2008. This time around I will be presenting: SQL Server Under New Management The ratio of DBA’s to the size of data being managed is increasing all the time as is
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Planning for SQ L Bits cubed (13th September in Hatfield) is moving along but the organisers need your help to make the day successful. The simplest thing you can do is to register on the sort stuff you want to here about. For the extrovert and
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This weekend the Microsoft evangelists were out in force at the BBC Mashed, a hack event at Alexandra Palace. The delegates have 24 hours to make something cool with sponsors stuff, and those sponsors also included the Lonely Planet , The BBC ,
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I have heard it said by many developers that DBAs are all artists, so please can you direct your creative talents to coming up with a new logo for the SQL Bits events. Simon Sabin , designed the last one but it needs to be changed for reasons I won’t
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The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), is holding it's next meeting on 26th June from 6-9pm. The theme is virtualising SQL Server, in all its guises both using hardware and software. HP and Quest are going to be there and I will be
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During our current round of TechNet road shows we are focusing on Windows Server 2008 and I open my session with a trailer from Maclaren. This shows how they use SQL Server 2008 and I did this because there will be a lot more SQL Server content on the
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The IT Pro team will be talking to over 2,000 of you over the next couple weeks as we embark on our sold out TechNet road show . The bread van (as the rest of the team refer to my eccentric choice in transport) will be putting the mini into mini
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So following form my last post, Eric Alsop’s session for the SQL Community last night was on cursors of course. His simple but effective presentation showed up a couple of scenarios where cursors are still useful weapons in an DBA’s armoury despite all
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