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Your Country Needs You! PASS NomCom is announced.
If you haven’t already heard, the official slate for the 2014 NomCom committee has been finalized and published by the Professional Association for SQL Server (that’s PASS to you and me) and can be...
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Who is watching the Watchmen?
It is funny, but when I first decided to put myself forward for the Nominations Committee this year, I didn’t realize that the whole process would turn into a Campaign for Election. It really goes...
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View, Pugh, Barney McGrew…
…Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub. I never ceases to amaze me that there is always that little bit of SQL Server functionality that you didn’t know about. Some of it good and some of it bad, some of it just meh…...
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5 Days of PASS – Day 1
It is now the morning after the night before, having completed the official first day of the PASS Summit 2014. It is nice to be back in Seattle and America after not being able to travel last year so...
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5 Days of PASS – Day 2
Welcome folks to the second enthralling instalment of 5 days of PASS! As I am sure is about to become very clear, I type with the knowledge that I have a very busy day ahead with various pieces of...
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Blogger Table – Day 1 – Thomas LaRock
The key note has just begun and the number of first timers standing up is quite incredible and large. Thomas LaRock has begun the keynote speech and runs through the board of Directors and then makes a...
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5 Days of PASS – Day 3
Well just when you thought things could not get any busier, along comes Day 3 of the PASS Summit. I started the day on the PASS Blogger Table for the opening Keynote speech of the Summit introduced by...
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5 Days of PASS – Day 4
As I write, the penultimate day of the PASS Summit has been and gone. It was again an overloaded rollercoster of a ride filled with appointments, chance meetings of old friends and most significantly...
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5 Days of PASS – Day 5
I wake up to the faint sound of early morning traffic starting to roll slowly through the empty streets of Downtown Seattle as the occasional bark from a dog can be heard from somewhere in the...
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Flash not working in Chrome/ Chromium
When Linux works it works well, and when it doesn’t it can be a real pain in the backside. Usually though, the failings are not necessarily the fault of the OS, but more the fault of the way in which...
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Lisbon 2015
I liked the shaver event so much, I bought sponsored the company community If you ever asked an experienced speaker what is the best formula to follow when starting out on your road to presenting, they...
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Speaking at SQLBits XIV (after all!)
I don’t think it is a particularly big secret that I am a fan of SQLBits (more posts can be found here). I remember being at the PASS Summit in 2010 and enthusiastically talking about the SQLBits...
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Changing the boot order of generation 2 Virtual Machines in Systems Center...
On Windows 2012 R2 hosts, Hyper-V introduced the concept of generation 2 Virtual Machines, which provide various benefits and a set of restrictions to those VMs configured in this way. In most cases...
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How to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012R2
If you want to jump straight to the condensed solution, then please feel free to go to the Condensed Installation instructions below. If you find this post useful or have any feedback then please leave...
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #380 New York!
Back in August 2012 I had the honour of speaking at the last (but one) SQLSaturday to be held in New York City which marked a particular milestone in my SQL Server journey. While I had (by then)...
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Delivering Precon at SQLSaturday #413 Denmark
I am pleased and proud to announce that on Thursday 17th September, I along with my good friend Régis Baccaro (web|twitter) will be delivering our full day pre-conference training day titled...
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Want to choose your own agenda? From SQLSaturday to the PASS Summit!
OK so sadly Buck can’t be with us this year, but if he could, he would tell you to join our Programme Committee! This year, SQLSaturday Cambridge is pioneering the first ever Global Programme Committee...
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Speaking at SharePoint Saturday London
I don’t think it is any great secret that I have had my eyes on the SharePoint Community for quite some time. With the introduction of a dedicated SharePoint track (and precon) in 2013 at SQLSaturday...
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Announcing SharePoint Saturday Cambridge – We got two tribes
In 2013, SQLSaturday Cambridge became the first ever SQLSaturday in the World to host a dedicated SharePoint track and the event was a great success. It struck me at the time how well we managed to get...
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Not Accepted for the PASS Summit 2015?
I guess it could be easy to become complacent about being selected to speak at conferences and you could certainly argue that I have been tremendously lucky with the selection process since I first...
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