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Friday, November 09, 2007 9:03 PM

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...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:30 AM

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...
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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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Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:32 PM

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...
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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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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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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:08 AM

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...
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