Sep 28, 2020 | General, Professional Development |
The Group By data conference is running this October, and the speaker and session selection is well underway. I decided to submit two sessions to this Octobers years Group By Event. There are two versions of the Group By conference. There is a Group by America and a...
Aug 11, 2020 | Blog, C#, Professional Development |
Last week I was asked what web development blogs I read around web development, granted I’m not a web developer, but I do like to keep up with technology trends etc., so I checked my Feedly RSS reader, and I realised that I didn’t have very many. So I...
Apr 21, 2017 | Professional Development, SQL Server, Training |
I received the email from Learning Tree on Wednesday with their weekly offer of courses running in the London Education Center this May. There are 2 Great Courses For Databases Professionals. Aside from the SrumMaster course which is priced...
Apr 7, 2017 | Contracting, Professional Development |
At the end of March I wrote a couple of posts discussing the state of IT industry. It looked at how government changes to dividend tax and possibly the Brexit vote last year seemed to have an impact on small business creation in the UK in the period running from...
Mar 2, 2017 | Career, Contracting, Professional Development, SQL Server, TSQL |
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...
Feb 21, 2017 | Career, Consulting, Contracting, Professional Development, SQL Server, TSQL |
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...