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Join me for the first EMEA SQL Server webcast of the year Deploying SQL Server Tips & Tricks on Thursday 19th January 2012!

Starting this month I’m proud to announce that I will be hosting the all [...]

I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that I had peeked through the curtains at the party going on across the street. Ironically I had planned to write a post on this very topic because of something I saw online last night, but more [...]

Speaking Engagements

It only seems like a couple of weeks ago since I wrote a post about new years resolutions which you can read here, scary thing is it’s almost time to think up some new ones. Whilst some of my goals for the year have slipped I’m glad to say that I have exceeded on a number [...]

SQLRelay: The Final Sprint

The UK SQL community has never had so many events in such a short space of time. Last week there were three days of SQLBits and this week all 15 SQL User Groups have held a free event with each meeting having a session presented by a SQL Server MVP. This figure includes three user groups [...]

SQLRelay: The Third Leg

Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed and glad they had a user group near them. Navigate to http://www.sqlserverfaq.com to see if there is a user group near you, if there isn’t we can help you start one!

You can see the lead up [...]

SQLRelay: The Second Leg

For those of you that follow athletics and have seen how the 4 * 100metre relay works you may appreciate that I decided not to go with the title “SQL Relay: Going round the bend” for yesterdays blog post SQLRelay: The First Leg. I might still go for it tomorrow depending on how tonight turns out!

Last [...]

Free SQL Stuff

Community events are a great way of picking up free stuff and SQLRelay is no exception. At the inaugural Maidenhead User Group on the 4th October not only are we being treated to two excellent speakers from Coeo in Justin Langford and Chirag Roy, but we have the following items to give away too:

Session Recordings of [...]

SQLRelay: The First Leg

SQLBits 9 may be over but the SQL community is still going strong in the UK with the first leg of SQLRelay kicking off this evening. If you haven’t heard of SQLRelay we’re hosting a mammoth 15 SQL user group meetings in three days and a 16th national event in London on the fourth day with [...]

SQLBits 9 Roundup

I’ve written quite a bit about SQLBits since I started blogging almost two years ago, this time however I had a very different experience from previous events. In August I accepted a position at Quest software and asked if I could work on the stand, so for this SQLBits I was an exhibitor, not an attendee. [...]

A new SQL User Group in the UK

You may have already heard rumours on twitter or on a couple of blogs that there has been a new SQL user Group announced here in the UK. It’s time to put a bit of flesh on the bones!

I’ve been wanting to start a user group for some time now as the community is so vibrant [...]

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