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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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In May, I’ll be in the US. I have board meetings for PASS at the SQLRally event in Dallas, and then I’m going to be spending a bit of time in Chicago. The big news is that while I’m in Chicago (May 14-16), I’m going to teach my “Advanced T-SQL Querying Read More...
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It’s a phrase I use often, especially when teaching, and I wish I had realised the concept years earlier. (And of course, fits with this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic, hosted by Argenis Fernandez ) When I’m sick enough to go to the doctor, I see a GP. I Read More...
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My company LobsterPot Solutions gives quite a bit to charity. Sometimes it’s working for reduced rates (or even free), but sometimes we give money directly. A Seattle-based friend of mine has CML – one of the types of leukemia, and when I found out she 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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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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The UK has been well represented this summer at the Adelaide SQL Server User Group, with presentations from Chris Testa-O’Neill (isn’t that the right link? Maybe try this one ) and Martin Cairney. The slides are available here and here . I thought I’d Read More...
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In honour of the regular T-SQL Tuesday blogging, the UnSQL theme started, looking at topics that were not directly SQL related, but nevertheless quite interesting. This is the brainchild of Jen McCown, who posted the second of these recently. I’m actually Read More...
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Roger ’s been doing a great job extending PivotViewer recently, and you can find the list of LobsterPot pivots at http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au Many months back, the TED Talk that Gary Flake did about Pivot caught my imagination, and I did some research Read More...
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I get this question a lot. I don’t mean just ‘every so often’, I mean all the time. It would average out to daily, but there are still days when I only see people who have already asked. Either way, it’s definitely a lot . And they always put it the same Read More...
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Considering that I run a database consultancy , I should be fairly biased on this question, and suggest that you can't possibly cope without database professionals – except that I don’t really believe it all that much. I do believe it, and I’ll demonstrate Read More...
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At LobsterPot , there are a few things that we definitely value above other things. Integrity is top of the list – it has to be. In fact, it is the quality I refuse to compromise on with my staff. When I identify someone I want to approach for a job, Read More...
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At LobsterPot , I’m very blessed to have excellent staff working for me. Someone asked me just today why we haven’t grown more than we have in the past year, but in just over a year I’ve brought on 3 staff members and have another one starting next month. Read More...
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