CLR Demystified @ PASS Scania and SQL Bits 7
I'm privileged enough to be presenting at two conferences in the next month, at PASS Scania Community Connection 2010 on September 10th and at SQL Bits 7 on October 2nd. At both of these conferences I...
View ArticleA quick thank-you
Just a quick thank-you to everyone at Informator and PASS Scania for inviting me to speak at the Community Connections 2010 event in Malmo. I had a brilliant time, met a great bunch of people, had a...
View ArticleWhy the SQL Server Community is awesome
Having had a bit of time to reflect on the time I spent at the Community Connections event at Malmo in Sweden and SQLBits 7 in York, I have come to the conclusion that the SQL Server Community is...
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T-SQL Tuesday #12 - Why are DBA skills necessary?
So, I thought I would try and participate in T-SQL Tuesday, and the topic for this month is 'Why are DBA skills necessary?'. This one is a topic that's close to my heart, as it's an area where I have...
View ArticleSQL Southampton User Group
Last week I attended the first SQL Southampton user group meeting, and I have to say it was a hugely enjoyable occasion.First of all, thanks to Mark Pryce-Mayer (Twitter | Blog) who put in a lot of...
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 - What The Business Wants Is Not What The Business Wants
This is a really interesting topic chosen by Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral fame, and, for me, is a story of communication skills.What the business wants can be expressed in a few different ways, by...
View ArticleFeedback on the Schema Engine OSS release
A few weeks back, I decided to open source Schema Engine, which is the core of the Atlantis product set. I was really hoping that I would get some good feedback on where to take it, see it used in some...
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T-SQL Tuesday #18 - CTEs - The permission hierarchy problem
Recently, I was looking at a problem which involved an arbitrary tree structure for permissions. The idea was similar to NTFS security, in that the permission that was defined furthest from the root of...
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