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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:42 PM

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...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:31 PM

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...
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Friday, July 20, 2007 4:38 PM

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...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:08 PM

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...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:14 AM

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...
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Monday, February 19, 2007 1:32 PM

4 questions to evaluate people's passion

I'm going to find this topic very interesting when I'm training people more and more. Kathy Sierra gives us four questions to judge someone's passion for their work: When was the last time you read a trade/professional journal or book related to your...
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