Things are really ramping up in May and June this year, it’s a great time to be an IT Professional with so much free SQL Server training available! This month there are 9 events planned including the Europe’ premier SQL Server SQLBits. If ...

Earlier this year I had the chance to collaborate on my first ever white paper “Top 10 Tips for Optimizing SQL Server Performance” with Patrick O’Keeffe who is Director of Software Development at Dell Software Group. I must say, it was a really interest...

Thomas La Rock (Blog | Twitter) recently wrote a blog post about misplacing a  device he has called a FitBit One which is a pretty cool piece of kit, it’s entitled “How to find a missing FitBit”.  For those of you who don’t know what they are, think of ...

There has been lots of speculation in the SQL Server community as to what the official name of the next release of Microsoft’s flagship database product SQL Server will be. Today I made a discovery on one of Microsoft’s very own sites that indicates tha...

Before we dive in to the post, I’d like to give a big thank you to Bob Pusateri (Blog|Twitter) for hosting this months T-SQL Tuesday “Presenting and Loving it!”. T-SQL Tuesday was the brainchild of Adam Machanic (Blog|Twitter) you can find out more abou...

The bank holiday and work have put me a few days behind schedule, but here is the list out all of the UK events for all you busy people who forget to go over to http://www.SQLServerfaq.com to check what SQL Server events are happening in the UK this m...

This weekend was full of a range of emotions for me. Grab a beverage and I’ll tell you all about it…. The Journey On the Friday I had arranged to take my 70-451 exam at lunchtime at a test center just outside Birmingham which would provide m...

Unless you’ve entered “100th blog post” into your favourite search engine and clicked on pot luck (or whatever it is) you’ll know that I pretty much always blog about SQL Server. Not this time! Today, I thought I would share a li...

Welcome to the first of what I plan to be a regular recurring theme. Right here I will list out all of the UK events for all you busy people who forget to go over to http://www.SQLServerfaq.com to check what SQL Server events are happening in the UK. It...

Thanks for agreeing to do this Gina; from your emails things do sound quite frantic at the moment so I really do appreciate your time! Thank you for the opportunity to present this information about myself and our Pittsburgh SQL Server User Group! Bef...