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Martin Bell on SQL Nuggets

Martin Bell MVP and SQL Bits Organiser, wants to promote the idea of SQL Nuggets. Basically these are 5-10 minute slots on something byte sized (ouch!) at community events where anyone can grab the mike and share their knowledge. Martin has a good example Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:52 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments

SQL Nuggets

It’s been a while since my last entry for Technet Insiders, one reason for the delay is that I’ve been very busy writing and presenting at SQL Server User Groups and organising our forth SQLBits Community Conference on March 28 th at the Manchester Metropolitan Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:39 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 1 Comments
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Great Barr School Implements OCS in 8 months

I recently had the opportunity to interview Alex Pearce, Microsoft MVP and network manager of Great Barr School.  In the interview he goes on the to discuss the state of the school prior to his arrival and then fast forwards to the present day where Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:41 PM by Viral Tarpara | 0 Comments
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Speaking at SQL Bits

In this unusual Industry post I have got the industry insider on camera to discuss why you should get involved in the premier SQL community event, SQL Bits . Take it away Chris Testa O’Neill   SQL Bits goes fourth is on  28th march this time Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:48 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments

Chris Testa O-Neill

Chris Testa-O'Neill is the Database Product Manager at Remarc Group Ltd. He specialises in SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions and teaches all Microsoft courses in the SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 product range. He also conducts closed company sessions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:15 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 1 Comments
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USING SQL Server Integration Services to retrieve data from an IBM AS400

Thanks again to Jennifer Stirrup from Aspective (A Vodafone company) for writing up how she gets data into SQL Server using its in built Integration Services (SSIS) from an AS400 in this useful guide . This takes me back to my first ever BI project which Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:32 AM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments

SQL Server: Using SSIS to retrieve data from AS400

Using SSIS, getting data from one SQL Server to another SQL Server is straightforward enough. However, what about getting data from other non-Microsoft data sources? Here, we will discuss the integration of data from an AS400 system with SQL Server 2005, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:15 AM by Andrew_Fryer | 1 Comments
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All about Nothing- SQL Server Nulls in Powershell

Finding stuff about one Microsoft technology isn’t too hard it’s when you try and use two things get a little harder at Adrian J. Beasley found out when he was looking for nothing in particular; the use of SQL Server nulls in a Powershell script.  Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 9:53 AM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments

Testing for Database Null Values from PowerShell

PowerShell is super, but its documentation is still lousy. You might think that how to test a database field for a null value would be straightforward, and indeed it is, but it ain’t documented anywhere. I’ve just spent the afternoon searching and eventually Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 9:27 AM by Andrew_Fryer | 1 Comments

A Look into data privacy in the cloud computing world

Leonard Chung, CEO of Syncplicity.com, discusses issues around web privacy and data protection laws his company deals with in the world of online storage.  Leonard and I dive deep into legal world of privacy statements what these types of documents Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:59 PM by Viral Tarpara | 0 Comments
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Upgrading to SharePoint 2007

In BI and in SharePoint there is a great community which transcends the many partners, contractors etc. that specialise in this field. We all keep in touch as we move companies and change roles as best we can using LinkedIn, Face book etc. So I asked Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 11:46 AM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments
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Upgrading from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2003

Upgrading from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2003 Recently I have been involved in upgrading our intranet from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 and I know this is something that is going to be increasingly important as more and more companies look to take advantage of the benefits Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:14 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 1 Comments
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Martin Bell

Martin Bell has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He has worked on many relational database systems and since 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) status in June 2003. He runs Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:21 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 3 Comments
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Time and Relative Dates in SQL Server 2008 (TARDIS)

Martin Bell , MVP and time lord has been getting to the bottom of the new date and time data types in SQL Server 2008 in this practical and useful article . Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:13 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments
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Time for a Date?

As a DBA I wear many hats! If I had to choose a hat for my data architect role it would probably be a nice white panama, the sort you see in the Agatha Christie re-runs on ITV3, but I digress!. As a data architect you extol the virtues of “correctly data Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:28 PM by Andrew_Fryer | 0 Comments
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