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What You Need To Bring to SQLBits

April 23, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

With only a few days to go before SQLBits kicks off, here’s some last minute tips on what you need to bring to ensure you have a fantastic experience.

Filed Under: Professional Development Tagged With: Community, Events, SQLBits

Get Your Ass to PASS!

June 20, 2012 by John Sansom 7 Comments

This year there are to be no excuses, and I mean it. You know what I’m talking about. There’s always some reason why you can’t go to the PASS Summit, why you can’t make it this time around. Maybe the timing is just not quite right, you can’t get the time off work, maybe there’s […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Community, Events, SQLPass

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 10/06/11

June 10, 2011 by John Sansom 2 Comments

I hope you’ve had a great week! You can make sure you don’t miss out on future posts right now by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive posts via Email. There’s been a lot of SQL Server activity going on in London this past week and the rest of the month is packed full of it too! Make sure […]

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community Tagged With: Events

Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links for the week 09/05/10

May 9, 2010 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Looking Under the Hood – A very interesting, T-SQL performance tuning post here from Brad Schulz, that highlights how the Query Optimizer behaves when using the coalesc() function and the implications, it would seem […]

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community Tagged With: Events

Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links 12/03/10

March 13, 2010 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Tuning SQL Server Transactions – and Meetings – Using a similar problem solving approach for hosting meetings and tuning transactions. The root of all Evil – I know this pain all […]

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community Tagged With: Events

Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links 29/01/10

January 30, 2010 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services – A nice walkthrough here from Simon Sabin. SQL Azure Frequently Asked Questions – So what’s this SQL Azure all about then? Brent Ozar […]

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community Tagged With: Events

Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links for the week 14/01/10

January 17, 2010 by John Sansom 2 Comments

I hope you’ve had a great week. Have you got what it takes to be a SQL Server DBA or are you looking for that new SQL Server role? Be sure not to miss my Top 10 Junior DBA Interview Tips. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! […]

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community Tagged With: Events

Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links 18/09/09

September 18, 2009 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve had a great week. The SQL Server Guru Challenge league table has been updated to reflect the latest results. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links The Importance of a good DR Plan – The results are in! Be sure to take […]

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community Tagged With: Events

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