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Leeds SQL Usergroup
17 July 08 10:32 AM | Richard | 4 comment(s)

Thanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event. The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site

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Speaking at Leeds SQL User group
21 June 08 10:38 PM | Richard | with no comments

For those who are interested, I am speaking on Visual Studio for Database Professionals at the Leeds SQL user group on the 16th July. This is a free event, f or more details see the event web site .

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On the train home
05 June 08 05:07 PM | Richard | with no comments

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July . The slides I used yesterday were virtually...

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New CTP Release for VS2008 Database Edition
03 June 08 08:55 PM | Richard | with no comments

Typical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version! See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.

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Speaking in Edinburgh this week
02 June 08 08:18 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

I am speaking at the Scottish SQL user group on Wednesday about VS2008 for DB Professionals . Hope to see you there.

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Speaking at Scottish SQL Usergroup
17 April 08 05:46 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

I will be speaking on Visual Studio for Database Professionals to the Scottish SQL usergroup on the 4th June in Edinburgh. Update The event booking site is now available at http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=115

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Community Launch Events
07 April 08 02:28 PM | Richard | with no comments

A busy time in the next few weeks for free community launch events for Windows 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008 . This week we at Black Marble are hosting a series of three evening events ( See online booking ) where you can see virtually the whole...

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Back home from the IMTC
05 April 08 02:31 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

After an uneventful journey I have got home from the IMTC conference in Dublin. Thanks to the organiser for running the event, it seemed to go well. I hope I managed to answer any question my sessions on SQL BI and Scrum raised, if not send a message...

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More sessions in Ireland next week
27 March 08 02:14 PM | Richard | with no comments

Just found out that Robert and myself are both now doing two sessions at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference next week. Thursday 13:45 - BI in SQL 08 (Richard Fennell) 16:45 - Microsoft Volta: Next Gen .NET Client-Server Apps (Robert Hogg) Friday...

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Installing SQL 2008 Feb CTP on a VPC
16 March 08 09:41 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

I have been trying to install the Feb CTP of SQL 2008 on an Virtual PC, but kept getting the following error SQL Server Browser Install for feature 'SQL_Browser_Redist_SqlBrowser_Cpu32' failed with exception System.InvalidOperationException: This...

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A couple of speaking engagements
12 March 08 09:20 AM | Richard | with no comments

I will be speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference in early April on the Business Intelligence features in SQL 2008. I also just found out my Continuous Integration session at Developer Day Scotland has been successful in the vote, thanks...

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Registration for SQLBits II
31 January 08 11:04 PM | Richard | with no comments

It seems there are still some places left for SQLBits II in Birmingham on the 1st of March. If you want to go I suggest you register fast as these community events do fill up fast.

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I think I got away with it!
06 October 07 10:23 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

I have just got back from SQLBits after giving my session on Unit testing in SQL. As I said at the start of my session, at developer events I often feel a bit of an outsider when I say I am talking on testing as opposed to development; today it was doubly...

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SQLBits
14 September 07 12:55 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have just heard my proposed session for the SQLBits conference has been accepted. I will be talking on Unit Testing in SQL Server my proposal was: Test driven development is one of the current hot topics in software development, but how far can these...

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