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UK Budget 2017 – The Death Knell for Small Business?

Mar 21, 2017 | Consulting, Contracting, SQL Server | 0 comments

Well I suspect not however I suspect it will likely have a major impact. What has this got to do with SQL and Data I hear you ask? I’m going to provide a little background first. Over the last week or so it has been an interesting political week here in the UK. We had...

Do you need a degree to be DBA?

Mar 2, 2017 | Career, Contracting, Professional Development, SQL Server, TSQL | 2 comments

This question gets asked a lot and reoccurs over the years. Do you need a degree to be DBA? I have seen many blogs and posts addressing this question. From recollection, most of the posts I read came down on the side of not needing a university or college...

Permanent Employment v Contracting: How the figures stack up

Feb 21, 2017 | Career, Consulting, Contracting, Professional Development, SQL Server, TSQL | 0 comments

In my latest learning tree newsletter, I discussed analysing some of the salary survey data that the good folks over at BrentOzar.com collected and made available back in January 2017. The data is very interesting and in my first post on this topic over the learning...

SQL Server Contracting and Business Network Wales – LinkedIn Groups Updates

Jan 4, 2013 | Contracting, Networking, SQL Server Consulting | 0 comments

I have been doing some work on some LinkedIn groups that I manage and look after over the holidays. There have been two in particular that I have been working on. SQL Server Contracts – I set this group up in 2009. Its purpose was connect SQL Server Professional and...

Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy

Nov 16, 2012 | Consulting, Contracting, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 | 0 comments

Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy – Protecting your company’s most valuable asset and keeping that asset available is a very important task for most companies. We can help you put in place a solid reliable backup strategy and implement SQL Server...

Contracting – Your best clients are your current clients…

Jun 20, 2012 | Contracting | 1 comment

and your old clients too. Before I started my contracting business five years ago I realised the importance of selling and how it would be key to the success of my business, it’s what some of the consulting books call ‘keeping the pipeline flowing’ if you read the...
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