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• Reflections on SQLBits XI

  Its been a couple of weeks since SQLBits XI happened in Nottingham and I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts for posterity. First the venue. I think its fair to say that the overall consensus was that the East Midlands Conference Centre was the best SQLBits Read More... Posted Friday, May 17, 2013 12:03 AM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: SQLBits

• Get the SQLBits agenda on your phone, now and forever

  Regular readers of my blog might have realised that I am a huge advocate of subscribable calendars and the data format that underpins them – iCalendar . On 8th Feb 2012 I wrote a blog post entitled SQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar Read More... Posted Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:02 PM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, iCalendar

• My SQLBits Pre Conference Seminar - SSDT Database projects from the ground-up

  Over the last year or so it will not have escaped my regular readers’ attention that much of my blogging has centred around SSDT database projects . SSDT (and its variously named forebears) is a tool that I have been using in some way, shape or form since Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:44 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, SSDT

• SQLPeople at SQLBits

  Ever heard of SQLPeople.net ? It is a website set up by Andy Leonard to showcase members of the SQL Server community by asking them the following questions: Everyone’s an accidental DBA (or database professional) – what’s your story? How’d you become Read More... Posted Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:05 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, SQLPeople

• SQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar

  Three weeks ago I published a blog post Get the SQLBits agenda in your phone's calendar where I said: If you want to get the SQLBits calendar onto your smartphone then the easiest way to do it is add my calendar [containing all SQLBits sessions] to whichever Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:36 AM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, iCalendar

• Get the SQLBits agenda in your phone's calendar

  For SQLBits 8 in April 2011 I published a calendar containing all of the sessions from the conference ; anyone could subscribe to that calendar on their phone or calendar service (i.e. Hotmail or Google Calendar). For the upcoming SQLBits X conference Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:36 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, iCalendar

• Reflections on SQLBits 8

  Its the day after SQLBits 8 and after a busy day at home I now have time to sit down with The Masters on in the background (come on Rory ) and reflect on the last 2 days. Its been said many times before I am sure but there is no doubt in my mind that Read More... Posted Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:33 PM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, SQLVids

• SQLBits 8 - SQLVids

  Below are the videos that I have been shooting at SQLBits 8. Please keep checking back here throughout the next two days as I continue to update this post. N.B. The rendering of videos isn’t great here on SQLBlog so to to view them in full fidelity click Read More... Posted Friday, April 08, 2011 12:36 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, SQLVids

• SQLVids at SQLBits

  At SQLBits 7 in October 2010 I took it upon myself to wander around sticking my video camera into people’s faces and asking them to say something profound for the watching millions tens – you can see those videos at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=01617594AB55E450 Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:39 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, SQLVids

• Get the SQLBits agenda on your phone

  The agenda for the forthcoming SQLBits 8 conference in Brighton is currently available at http://sqlbits.com/information/Agenda.aspx . Unfortunately, useful though it quite clearly is, its only a web page and that means its hard to get the agenda data Read More... Posted Monday, April 04, 2011 12:15 AM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, iCalendar

• Analysing SQLBits Feedback

  Earlier this week I received all the feedback that people offered on my session at SQLBits 7 in York – “SSIS Dataflow Performance Tuning” (the video is available online if you wish to see it). As you may have gathered from previous posts on this blog Read More... Posted Saturday, January 15, 2011 1:07 PM by jamiet | 7 Comments Filed under: SQLBits, excel, Tableau, SkyDrive

• SQLBits videos (distinctly amateur)

  Hi all, SQLBits 7 is here, I’m here, and I’m walking around being very obnoxious and sticking a video camera in people’s faces. Thankfully nobody has offered me outside yet so if you’re interested in having a look at what’s going on in and around SQLBits Read More... Posted Friday, October 01, 2010 10:56 AM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: SQLBits

• My SQLBits presentation this coming Friday – SSIS Performance Tuning

  SQLBits is once again upon us, this time its number 7 and it starts on 30th September 2010 in York. I’ve been looking forward to this one since it was first announced because its in my original neck of the woods so as well as going to this great conference Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:43 PM by jamiet | 4 Comments Filed under: SQLBits

• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS)

  I’m at SQLBits 5 today and I’ve just come out of Ian Marriott’s session where he talked about the forthcoming Master Data Services. Here’s a low-quality (sorry) photo of the screen that MDS practitioners and users are going to become very familiar with, Read More... Posted Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:47 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: sql server, MDS, Master Data Services, SQLBits