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 […]
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Wellington SQL Server User Group
A few weeks ago I was asked to take over the running of the Wellington SQL Server User Group by the original founder of the group. I had been wanting to get more involved in the local SQL community, and last year kicked that off by speaking at 3 different user groups and Tech Ed […]
Getting ready for Tech Ed New Zealand
Tech·Ed NZ kicks off the day after tomorrow at the Auckland SkyCity convention centre. I’ve been to a few in the past, so nothing new there – but what makes this year different is that myself and a colleague will be presenting a session: DBI207 – Trade Me: 0-70 million pages in 0.34 Gigaseconds Its […]
Public speaking jitters
The week before Easter, a colleague and I presented at the Wellington SQL Server User Group. It was a first for each of us, and its fair to say neither of us was jumping with joy at the idea of it. To ease into it we did a few things which I think helped make it […]