Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas is a SQL Server Professional working in the UK where he recently worked as a DBA in women's clothing, not literally he hastens to add! He is certified in SQL Server 2008, runs the Maidenhead SQL Server User Group Pass Chapter and is on the organising committee for SQL Relay. In his spare time plays the trumpet in local symphony orchestras.

His online presence includes:

Blog: http://SQL.RichardDouglas.co.uk

Twitter: http://Twitter.com/SQLRich

LinkedIn: http://www.Linkedin.com/in/RichardPDouglas

Maidenhead User Group: http://www.sqlstudy.org

Interests: Usual stuff: family, SQL Server, shiny things.

Choosing the right professional

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a...

2012-01-11

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2011 – The dissection

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Blimey, doesn’t seem like a year since I wrote my last end of year review End of year review 2010...

2012-01-01

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Why I blog #Meme15

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...

2011-12-15

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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – How to view the size of all your databases – #TSQL2sDay

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

It’s that time of the month again, no not time, T-SQL time! If you have not heard of T-SQL Tuesday...

2011-12-13

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Speaking Engagements

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

It only seems like a couple of weeks ago since I wrote a post about new years resolutions which you...

2011-11-15

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Writing queries without data

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Sometimes it’s not possible to have the data you need in order to create the most efficient queries possible. This...

2011-11-15

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Top 5 Third Party Quotes

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Unless you’ve worked in a vacuum the likelyhood is that you either are a third company or you have many...

2011-11-09

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SQLRelay: The Final Sprint

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

The UK SQL community has never had so many events in such a short space of time. Last week there...

2011-10-06

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SQLRelay: The Third Leg

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed...

2011-10-05

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Blogs

Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics

One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...

Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes

By Anthony Nocentino

When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...

Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER

By Anthony Nocentino

I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...

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