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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 and larger. I’ve heard it’s now the largest...

Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Filed under: Filed under: community, wagga, code camp, sql, professional development, sql bits
Things You Know Now

This blog meme is doing the rounds… I’ve been tagged at least twice now ( Jason Strate and Greg Linwood ), so I suppose subconsciously I’ve been thinking about this stuff for a few weeks already. Since I do a lot of training, I tend to explain these things to my students anyway. I...

Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Mar 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: community, certification, sql, fun, 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 to attend, but it's a bit far to travel (I guess...

Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Oct 10 2007
Filed under: Filed under: community, wagga, code camp, australia, sql, training, 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 the students to sit the exam 70-431 , which the...

Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Jul 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: community, australia, certification, sql, professional development
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 with organising something like this is that I'm...

Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Feb 20 2007
Filed under: Filed under: community, australia, professional development
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 work? (can substitute "attended an industry conference...

Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Sun, Feb 18 2007
Filed under: Filed under: community, recruitment, academia, training, professional development

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

Things You Know Now

Free SQL training at events in the UK and Australia

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

Topics for coffee meetings

4 questions to evaluate people's passion