January 2009 - Posts

• SQL Server 2008 System Views Poster now available for download

  I'm really proud of the work my colleagues at Solid Quality Mentors did on the SQL Server 2008 System Views poster in conjunction with our partners. Ron Talmage led our team. But the best news is that it's now available for download for free: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=531c53e7-8a2a-4375-8f2f-5d799aa67b5c&displaylang=e Read More... Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 7:12 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• SQL Server Certification Statistics

  Ken Tanner recently reminded me of the link showing current certification status: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx The SQL Server related entries from this list are: MCDBA SQL 2000 152086 MCTS SQL 2005 41665 SQL 2005 BI 2600 SQL 2008 Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:47 AM by Greg Low | 34 Comments

• New Sydney CBD Lunch-time SQL Server User Group

  Victor Isakov has decided to spin up a new SQL Server user group that will be meeting on the 1st Wednesday of each month, at Westpac Place in the city. He describes the group as focussing on best practices, optimisation, design and implementation and Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:41 AM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• DevWeek - London - March

  I'm also locked in to present a one day "SQL 2k8 for Developers" preconference session and three conference sessions for DevWeek in London in March, along with a number of my colleagues from Solid Quality: Itzik Ben-Gan and Javier Loria. I'm really looking Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:41 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• OT: Happy Chinese New Year!

  过年 好 or perhaps 新年快 乐 but Happy New Year anyway! Read More... Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 7:53 PM by Greg Low | 1 Comments

• TechEd US - Full Text Indexing - SQL Server 2008

  Got the email today to say I had a session accepted for TechEd US. I'll be doing the " Answering the queries your users really want to ask " session on full text indexing in SQL Server 2008. It's an update of the session that I did at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona Read More... Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 5:45 PM by Greg Low | 1 Comments