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• Presenting at ADNUG this week

  I haven't been to ADNUG for a while. I love that the group is there, but over the past year or more, I haven't prioritised getting to the meetings. I've been to meetings of equivalent groups in Melbourne and Sydney, but not to the Adelaide Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 8:03 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, adelaide, community, code camp

• SQL Code Camp concludes, plus poor Catherine Eibner

  The SQL Down Under Code Camp finished this afternoon after a successful couple of days, but was marred by the news that Catherine Eibner , whose company sponsored the Influencers Party at TechEd AU this year, had shattered her wrist and was in hospital Read More... Posted Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:42 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: adelaide, community, code camp

• User Group meeting with Christine Bishop

  Yesterday we had Christine Bishop come to Adelaide . She's the Product Marketing Manager for SQL Server and BI for Microsoft Australia. That makes her handy to know if you're in the SQL space, and we had a nice crowd come along to the user group Read More... Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 12:04 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, adelaide, adssug, community

• My favourite thing about SQL Server 2008

  A few people have asked me what my favourite thing is in SQL Server 2008 ("Katmai"). But my favourite thing isn't actually a feature at all, it's a mindset that Microsoft are taking with it. This mindset is "We will only put features Read More... Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 3:35 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, adelaide, adssug, community

• Darren Gosbell in Adelaide on July 12th

  What a great week for Adelaide having Australian SQL MVPs presenting! Code Camp SA on the weekend of July 7th and 8th features the Gregs (Linwood and Low), and BI expert Darren Gosbell will be coming to speak to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group the Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:03 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, adelaide, adssug, community

• Corrupt Paul Randal in Adelaide

  Ok, not so much _in_ Adelaide as, umm... well... Ok, he's going to be presenting a session remotely, about corruption in Microsoft. Or at least, the way that Microsoft handles corruption in SQL Server. Paul Randal must be corrupt himself, because Read More... Posted Monday, May 28, 2007 8:03 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, adelaide, community

• Some new CodeCamp MVPs

  It's great when a new quarter starts, because we get to find out who the new MVPs are. This time, my good friend Peter Ward has received the gong in the SQL world, and in the Dev world, friends Grant Holliday and Paul Stovell (both from Readify) have Read More... Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 8:01 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: australia, adelaide, community, code camp

• Paul Turner

  Paul Turner is an Adelaide guy I know well. He's been a trainer at Kaz for quite a while, is on the local ACS executive committee with me and has been involved in the local .Net user-group too. He's had a couple of major lifestyle changes in the last Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:02 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: adelaide, community, acs

• Powershell script from my SQL presentation

  Last week I presented at my user-group about PowerShell and why every DBA should know this. The talk went for just over an hour, and as most of the audience hadn't used PowerShell at all, I started from the top and really pushed concepts like "You pipe Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:00 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, adelaide, adssug, community, powershell