My name is David Curlewis, and I’m the SQL Server database team lead at Trade Me – a large New Zealand website company in Wellington. I’m originally from the sunny southern coast of South Africa, but since 2003 I’ve called New Zealand home with my wife & 3 daughters. Read More...
Though I’d take the opportunity (i.e. defrosting my toes on my heated blanket) to post a progress report on my KH125 rebuild project. I’m doing so from my phone, so please excuse me if the formatting turns out less than ideal. Continuing my recent non-SQL-related post trend, here are some photos, and a bit of [...]
Why do they call it elbow grease? I’m going to have to google that now before my laptop’s battery dies on me… one minute please. Right, that was less interesting than I expected… Anyway, I…. Sorry about that, just took a little break to let the scary earthquake pass – sheesh! Not fun. Back to [...]
If you’ve read my About Me page, then you’d have picked up that I’m an amateur petrol-head, and all-around DIY fiend. I also haven’t posted anything here for a while, because of a combination of being overly busy at work, and not feeling like writing anything (possibly related to the 1st point) – so I thought [...]
I left for the US just over 2 weeks’ ago to attend the PASS Summit in Seattle, followed by a week in San Francisco doing the tourist thing. Basically, the Summit was awesome. The pre-con sessions were amazing (and intense!) – I think my brain was physically stretched during Itzik Ben-Gan’s session on advanced T/SQL. [...]
PASS Summit I’m fortunate enough to be heading to Seattle this weekend for the PASS Summit courtesy of my employer (thanks again!). It’s my first visit the the US as well, so I’m extra-excited! The weather here (in Wellington, New Zealand) is pretty average at the moment – I still haven’t completely dried out after [...]
