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...
Phew! It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m starting to feel relatively normal again after a few hectic days doing the final prep work for yesterday’s SQLSaturday #136 here in Wellington, New Zealand. In the Beginning Preparation for the event started 3 months ago with Rob Farley asking whether I’d be interested in organising a SQLSaturday event [...]
I’ve been a little busy over the past few weeks; what with us taking a planned outage at work to perform a fairly major upgrade of both server hardware and clustering software, the Wellington SQL Server User Group keeping me on my toes as usual, and finally the up-coming Wellington SQLSaturday event we’re planning for [...]
The title pretty much says it all; we’ve got a SQL Saturday event confirmed for Wellington, on the 14th of April 2012! Rob Farley and a few other folks from PASS are organising 6 SQL Saturday events in a row across Australia and New Zealand (well, 1 in New Zealand), and are calling it the [...]
