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  • 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 depends on the value of the Aussie dollar, but either...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, May 5 2009
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  • Time zone limbo

    Australia is currently in an interesting week for time zones. Up until a couple of years ago, Daylight Savings finished on the last Sunday in March. That’s when the clocks got put back to Standard Time, as the Australian summer ended. Last year though, this got extended by a week, until the first Sunday...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Apr 1 2009
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  • Presenting at ADNUG this week

    I haven't been to ADNUG for a while. I love that the group is there, but over the past year or more, I haven't prioritised getting to the meetings. I've been to meetings of equivalent groups in Melbourne and Sydney, but not to the Adelaide .Net Group for a while. But this week I will! I've...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Oct 6 2008
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  • 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 the month, so now I've got around to uploading...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Sep 17 2008
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  • DAT283

    TechEd AU this week. I'm giving a talk on "T-SQL Tips n Techniques: Improving Your T-SQL Arsenal" on Friday morning. The slides are available from CommNet for people registered, but the scripts are here as well. Come along to the talk to see how I use the scripts, but do grab these if you...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Sep 2 2008
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  • SQL and Virtual Earth

    A while back I was talking to Bronwen Zande, of Brisbane-based SoulSolutions and GeekGirlBlogs . Anyway, she and her partner John are big fans of Virtual Earth . As it's well publicised that SQL Server 2008 will have new spatial types , including fancy ways of integrating with Virtual Earth, I asked...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Thu, Nov 1 2007
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  • SQL Down Under talks, and England wins

    This weekend is getting better and better. With England winning in both the football and the rugby , my mood is pretty good anyway - despite having to give the first presentation of Sunday morning at the SQL Down Under Code Camp . The local TV channel sent cameras just after I finished, so I think I...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Sat, Oct 13 2007
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  • SQL Down Under Code Camp begins

    Two days of intensive SQL Server training , thanks to experts from around Australia and Kevin Kline from the US. All the Australian SQL Server MVPs are coming (five here so far, two more coming soon). The coffee is great (thanks Peter ), the company is great, and there are so many more people here (than...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Fri, Oct 12 2007
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  • 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
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  • My favourite thing about SQL Server 2008

    A few people have asked me what my favourite thing is in SQL Server 2008 ("Katmai"). But my favourite thing isn't actually a feature at all, it's a mindset that Microsoft are taking with it. This mindset is "We will only put features into the CTPs once they are basically complete...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Aug 20 2007
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  • 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 one if you use SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and do a bit of Data...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Aug 8 2007
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  • 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 venue! Yes, that place is Wagga Wagga - one Wagga...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Sat, Jul 21 2007
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  • Darren Gosbell in Adelaide on July 12th

    What a great week for Adelaide having Australian SQL MVPs presenting! Code Camp SA on the weekend of July 7th and 8th features the Gregs (Linwood and Low), and BI expert Darren Gosbell will be coming to speak to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group the following Thursday. He'll be presenting about...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Jul 3 2007
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  • 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
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  • New Solid Quality MVPs

    Seems Solid Quality Learning have a few new SQL MVPs. Aussie Peter Myers , Randy Dyess and Andy Leonard have all been rewarded. Congrats guys!
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Apr 2 2007
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  • 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 now my colleague!), so it's a very high quality course...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Feb 6 2007
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  • Adelaide SQL UG this week

    This Thursday Greg Linwood of Solid Quality Learning is coming to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group to talk present about Performance Tuning. It should be a great time. Greg does a lot for the SQL Community in Australia, and it will be really good to have him over again. If you're interested in coming...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Dec 11 2006
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  • Office 2007 RTM today, great time for a talk about it and SQL!

    Office 2007 has RTM'd today, and this includes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This is great timing, with Grant Paisley coming to Adelaide to give his talk about integrating BI and MOSS. This is a great talk, and if you're going to be in Adelaide, you should be there! Go to sqlserver...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Nov 6 2006
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  • The horror of daylight savings (sorry Perth)

    I have friends in Perth, who I have always envied for the fact that they don't apply daylight savings there. For anyone who somehow has no idea what I'm talking about... because the days are long in the summer, many countries in the world apply 'daylight savings', to effectively shift...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Oct 24 2006
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