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Rob Farley - Owner/Principal with LobsterPot Solutions (a MS Gold Partner consulting firm), Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) and leader of the SQL User Group in Adelaide, Australia. Rob is also a Director of PASS, and runs training courses around the world in SQL Server and BI topics.
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Hopefully my connection is slightly better during today’s keynote than it was during yesterday’s, when “Live Blogging” didn’t really cut it. The PASS staff saw the problem and have resolved it (thanks guys!). Quentin Clark has jumped on stage to talk Read More...
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I’m at the PASS Summit, and announcements are coming out nice and fast. One of the big ones that has just been made is that SQL Server will work much more closely with Apache Hadoop. Amazing stuff, that I think helps people realise that Microsoft is very Read More...
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I’m a guest blogger again! This trip is already several days old for me. I arrived in America on Friday, delivered two sessions at Portland SQL Saturday event, walked (on Sunday) the Portland Half Marathon as a sponsor of Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Read More...
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Yes, the SQL book I was involved in two years ago has a sequel . In the first book, I wrote chapters 7 and 40, and was one of 53 MVPs that contributed. And the proceeds went to War Child. Yes, none of the MVPs who wrote, edited, etc, got any royalties Read More...
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Yeah, alright. I know PASS puts on heaps of free training all the time. There are meetings around the world all the time, as held by hundreds of chapters. Seriously, there’s over 240 chapters in the world. If you figure that they typically have a 2 hour Read More...
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I’m sure Americans understand the joke that is the “World Series” of baseball. Everyone else rolls their eyes and knows that this ‘world’ means North America. Some people feel similar with PASS , unfortunately. The North American Conference and the Global Read More...
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Exciting times for LobsterPot – Martin & Heidi joining the team, a new website ( lobsterpot.com.au ), and a Melbourne presence! In March, Martin Cairney joined the team. Martin is a long-time member of the local Adelaide SQL Server community, and Read More...
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I’m not going to ask you to vote for the abstracts that I submitted for the PASS Summit . I’m not even going to mention the abstracts that Roger and Ashley submitted . I figure if you’re reading this, you may have already read the post I wrote about them, Read More...
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My guys are great! When PASS started accepting abstract submissions for their Summit (in October this year), some of the LobsterPot employees immediately started looking into ideas for talks they could do. We rate communication as one of our key values Read More...
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Success Quietly Looms. Not quite 11 words, I know. I’ll put more at the end. Definitely SQL related though, right? (And it’s even an acrostic!) Tom LaRock started this, and Stacia Misner tagged me. Monday is over now though (heck, it’s well into Tuesday Read More...
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In less than a week, SQLPASS hosts another 24 Hours of PASS event , this time with an array of 24 female speakers (in honour of this month being Women’s History Month ). Interestingly, the committee has had a few people ask if there are rules about how Read More...
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I have a new appreciation for Tom LaRock ( @sqlrockstar ), who is doing a tremendous job leading the organising committee for the 24 Hours of PASS event (Twitter: #24hop ). We’ve just been going through the list of speakers and their preferences for time Read More...
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PASS Feedback came in last week. I also saw my dentist for some fillings... At the PASS Summit this year, I delivered a couple of regular sessions and a Lightning Talk. People told me they enjoyed it, but when the rankings came out, they showed that I Read More...
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At the PASS Summit last month, I did a set (Lightning Talk) about collation, and in particular, the difference between the “English” spoken by people from the US, Australia and the UK. One of the examples I gave was that in the US drivers might stop for Read More...
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My first PASS Summit didn’t let me down. LobsterPot Solutions sent two people to PASS this year – I was joined by Roger , who also wore the First Time ribbon on his conference badge. Roger is presenting in a couple of weeks to the Adelaide SQL Server Read More...
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