First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS)
I’m at SQLBits 5 today and I’ve just come out of Ian Marriott’s session where he talked about the forthcoming Master Data Services. Here’s a low-quality (sorry) photo of the screen that MDS...
View ArticleMy SQLBits presentation this coming Friday – SSIS Performance Tuning
SQLBits is once again upon us, this time its number 7 and it starts on 30th September 2010 in York. I’ve been looking forward to this one since it was first announced because its in my original neck of...
View ArticleSQLBits videos (distinctly amateur)
Hi all, SQLBits 7 is here, I’m here, and I’m walking around being very obnoxious and sticking a video camera in people’s faces. Thankfully nobody has offered me outside yet so if you’re interested in...
View ArticleAnalysing SQLBits Feedback
Earlier this week I received all the feedback that people offered on my session at SQLBits 7 in York – “SSIS Dataflow Performance Tuning” (the video is available online if you wish to see it). As you...
View ArticleGet the SQLBits agenda on your phone
The agenda for the forthcoming SQLBits 8 conference in Brighton is currently available at http://sqlbits.com/information/Agenda.aspx. Unfortunately, useful though it quite clearly is, its only a web...
View ArticleSQLVids at SQLBits
At SQLBits 7 in October 2010 I took it upon myself to wander around sticking my video camera into people’s faces and asking them to say something profound for the watching millions tens – you can see...
View ArticleSQLBits 8 - SQLVids
Below are the videos that I have been shooting at SQLBits 8. Please keep checking back here throughout the next two days as I continue to update this post. N.B. The rendering of videos isn’t great here...
View ArticleReflections on SQLBits 8
Its the day after SQLBits 8 and after a busy day at home I now have time to sit down with The Masters on in the background (come on Rory) and reflect on the last 2 days. Its been said many times before...
View ArticleGet the SQLBits agenda in your phone's calendar
For SQLBits 8 in April 2011 I published a calendar containing all of the sessions from the conference; anyone could subscribe to that calendar on their phone or calendar service (i.e. Hotmail or Google...
View ArticleSQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar
Three weeks ago I published a blog post Get the SQLBits agenda in your phone's calendar where I said: If you want to get the SQLBits calendar onto your smartphone then the easiest way to do it is add...
View ArticleSQLPeople at SQLBits
Ever heard of SQLPeople.net? It is a website set up by Andy Leonard to showcase members of the SQL Server community by asking them the following questions: Everyone’s an accidental DBA (or database...
View ArticleMy SQLBits Pre Conference Seminar - SSDT Database projects from the ground-up
Over the last year or so it will not have escaped my regular readers’ attention that much of my blogging has centred around SSDT database projects. SSDT (and its variously named forebears) is a tool...
View ArticleGet the SQLBits agenda on your phone, now and forever
Regular readers of my blog might have realised that I am a huge advocate of subscribable calendars and the data format that underpins them – iCalendar. On 8th Feb 2012 I wrote a blog post entitled...
View ArticleReflections on SQLBits XI
Its been a couple of weeks since SQLBits XI happened in Nottingham and I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts for posterity.First the venue. I think its fair to say that the overall consensus was that...
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