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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 interesting experience.

Writing a blog… Read more

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… Read more

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 that the name will not follow… Read more

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… Read more

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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 me with a nice… Read more

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 little bit about me and my blogging experiences. I’ll… Read more

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’s an… Read more

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!

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Do you use the FLOAT datatype? If so you had better read this……

Today I came across an issue somebody posted on the Microsoft Connect site citing a bug with how the FLOAT data type was calculating a value when being cast to various other datatypes. You can read the… Read more

As a former mentor Christian is used to me asking him all sorts of random questions, but this time it’s going to be published online. I’d also like to thank you for allowing me to be a technical reviewer in your latest book: Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting. Read more

Thanks for agreeing to do this Annette, with your SQL Saturday event only a few weeks away thing must be really hectic. I really do appreciate your time!

Before we start on the main part of the interview, tell us all a little about yourself.

I’m married to Jonathan Allen… Read more

I’ve been very privileged to be able to work alongside Kevin on a few projects during our time together at Quest. To be honest I was a little unsure on how to structure this interview as Kevin has so many strings to his bow. We could talk about being an… Read more

It’s an exciting time for SQL Server Professionals in the South West of the UK, we’re now just a few weeks away from the second ever SQLSaturday event in the UK which is being held in Exeter on the 8-9th March 2013.

If you haven’t registered yet why not!… Read more

Thanks for agreeing to do this Jonathan, I know you’re busy with arrangements for SQL Saturday #194 in Exeter

Before we start on the main part of the interview on the topic of being a SQL Server Database Administrator, tell us all a little about yourself.

I’m a father… Read more

Thanks for agreeing to do this Gavin. It’s great to be able to interview an MCA as there are so few of you about!

How did you start in SQL Server?

While I was still at school, I worked for a computer company that developed software using SQL Server.… Read more

Before we start with the main part of the interview, tell us all a little about yourself. I for one am intrigued why you have… Read more

Most readers will know you already, but before we start on the main part of the interview, tell us all a little about yourself for those that don’t.

I’m currently a Technical Evangelist for Confio Software. I’ve been in the IT industry for just under 15 years having first started… Read more

I’ve known you for quite a while now through Twitter and later at SQLBits (your mum was right kids, don’t speak to strange people on the internet  ). So thanks for agreeing to do this Mark.

Before we start on the main part of the interview, tell us all… Read more