New Year Aspirations – Mark Broadbent – SQLSaturday
I’ve known you for quite a while now through Twitter and later at SQLBits (your mum was right kids, don’t...
2013-01-18
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- Interests: Usual stuff: family, SQL Server, shiny things.
New Years Aspirations – James Rowland-Jones – PASS
Thanks for agreeing to do this James; I know as you run your own company your time is billable!
Before we...
2013-01-17
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New Year Ambitions – Brent Ozar – Consulting
You are of course someone who needs little introduction in the SQL Server community. A prolific blogger, tweeter, speaker, Microsoft...
2013-01-16
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New Year Aspirations – Chris Webb – SQLBits
SQLBits holds a special place for me as it was the first technical conference that I had ever been to....
2013-01-15
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New Year Aspirations
Every year millions of people around the world decide to make new years resolutions. In these resolutions they promise themselves...
2013-01-14
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#SQLMaiden 2013 dates
Some time back at a SQL Server user group in Southampton I was speaking to an MVP called Simon Sabin...
2013-01-09
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Yesterday I was hacked
That’s right, for all my years in IT yesterday I was the victim of a vicious and deeply distressing incident....
2012-09-13
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As one door closes another one opens
Normally I try and keep the things that happen at work separate from my blog, however it’s been an interesting...
2012-07-27 (first published: 2012-07-23)
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Cycling is good for you
It’s been a great day for British cycling with Bradley Wiggins becoming the first Briton to ever win the Tour...
2012-07-22
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Wish you were here
When I was growing up, we used to sit round the t.v. (families only had one in those days) and...
2012-03-21
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