Browse by Tags

• adssug
• arsenal
• australia
• Canada
• certification
• code camp
• community
• DBProj.com
• optimization
• professional development
• security
• Seminars
• smart database design
• sql
• teched
• tsbt-db
• vancouver
• VSDB2008GDR
• wagga

• Agile Database Techniques

  I am happy to announce that there is a new class dedicated to VSDB. “ Agile Database Techniques ”, is a 3-days course that provides students with the knowledge and skills to properly manage the SQL Server database development lifecycle in an agile environment....( Read More... Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:16 AM from Home of the Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR, DBProj.com

• 70-113, the Virtual Lab exam, gives Microsoft Certification new hope

  We all know what's wrong with Microsoft certifications. The multiple-choice format means that people can cheat too easily, and over the years, the questions have often felt too specific, asking the kinds of questions that proper IT professionals just Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:51 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, training, certification

• Improving Your T-SQL Arsenal - slides

  I've given this presentation a couple of times at user-groups now - last week in Adelaide, and this week in Melbourne. I posted the scripts to my blog recently, making them available to people who heard this talk at TechEd Australia at the start of Read More... Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:46 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, training, community, arsenal, teched

• Oh, Canada

  I admit it. I love all Canada: maple sugar candy, loonies and toonies, Mounties, old town Montreal with its French history, the CN tower in Toronto, Stanley Park in Vancouver, and high tea at the Fairmont Empress Victoria. Canada is pure Jazz. Is there Read More... Posted Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:39 AM from Paul Nielsen | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, optimization, Canada, Seminars, vancouver, smart database design

• Orr-some time with Geoff

  Geoff Orr spoke at the Adelaide SQL Server User Group yesterday, and according to the feedback (and attendance), it was a very popular session. He discussed various options around SSIS configuration, and threw in some jokes as usual. Of course, he may Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 9:03 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, adssug

• The best way to pass a Microsoft certification exam

  For a limited time only, Microsoft are giving you the chance to have a second shot at any IT professional, developer or Microsoft Dynamics exam. Brilliant! The way this works (and the way I encourage all my students to do this) is that if you register Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:30 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, certification

• 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

• Code Camps galore

  We all know that Adelaide hosted Code Camp SA recently - it was a great success, and some people even wished I was there ! TechEd is coming up of course, but now there are two code camps scheduled for October, on the same weekend (13-14) and at the same Read More... Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 8:32 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, training, community, code camp, security, teched, wagga

• 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

• My first Solid Quality course is scheduled

  If you're in Melbourne during the last week of March and want to learn about how to effectively write queries for SQL Server, then this course is for you. The course was written by Itzik Ben-Gan , who is one of the legends in the SQL Server world (and Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:08 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, training