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• More SQL Conferences coming up, including SQL Bits and SQL Down Under

  I know I won’t be there, as I’m a million miles away in Australia, but being from the UK myself, I always have an interest in the UK SQL community and in particular, events like SQL Bits. This is the fifth SQL Bits conference , and they keep getting larger Read More... Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:06 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, community, professional development, code camp, wagga, sql bits

• Seriously cheap exams in Australia

  If you’re an MCP in Australia and you haven’t passed any exams over the past couple of years (since July 1, 2007), then Microsoft has an offer at the moment to let you do an exam for only US$25 (until June 30, 2009). Ok, so that means the price really Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:56 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, certification, professional development, SQL Server 2008

• Reasons to consider certification

  I saw a link to a report by TechRepublic giving reasons to value certification in 2009 . The idea behind the piece is that we are in a time of economic crisis, cutbacks and the like, and asking the question about whether or not people should be looking Read More... Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 5:51 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification, professional development

• Free SQL training at events in the UK and Australia

  ...and I'm not even referring to the User Groups which run regularly. The ones I'm referring to are SQLBits and the SQL Down Under Code Camp . SQLBits was in the UK last weekend, and was a massive success. I would've loved to have been able Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:42 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, training, community, professional development, code camp, wagga

• Only 71 people have MCITP:BI

  Mitch Wheat sent me this. According to http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx , there are only 71 people in the world (well, at the end of June) who have achieved MCITP:BI. This means passing the two exams 70-445 and 70-446. You could be Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:31 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, certification, professional development

• Pearson Vue no longer offering Microsoft exams

  You can only book to do Microsoft certification exams through Pearson Vue until the end of August. From then on, you have to choose Prometric . More information can be read at Vue's website: http://vue.com/ms/testtakerfaq.pdf Personally, I find this Read More... Posted Friday, July 20, 2007 3:38 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, certification, professional development

• 70-431 exam tips, and congrats to Jos Verbaken - MCTS

  Jos Verbaken was a student of mine a few weeks ago. He lives in Ballarat, and is known around the Melbourne SQL Server User Group circles. He did the 5-day course 2780 - Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database . During the course, I encouraged Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:08 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, certification, community, professional development

• More Alice Workshops

  I found this in my email the other day. I think I have reported on some of them already but having them all together in one post seemed like a good idea to me. May 30-31 -- Nassau Community College, NY Contact Lore Postnel ( postnel@ncc.edu ) or Darci Read More... Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:00 AM from MSDN Blogs | (Comments Off) Filed under: professional development, Education, teaching, first programming experience

• Topics for coffee meetings

  Nick Randolph made an interesting point . But first let me say that it's great that the Perth .Net group are doing this at all. It's a great move to develop a stronger community, and one that I would love to see happen in Adelaide some time. My problem Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:14 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: australia, community, professional development