WARDY IT Solutions has continued to demonstrate its experience with the Microsoft data platform and has been awarded as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft...

The release of SQL Server 2008 is getting very close. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference it was announced that SQL Server 2008 will be available on the price list for partners and customers. Full details of the Press Release can be found here...

Often when reporting there is a need to determine what Monday's date was for the previous week. For example give me all sales from Monday to Sunday for last week. The following Reporting Services snippet will calculate what last Monday's date was: DateAdd("d",...

After missing a month due to Tech-Ed US the WARDY IT Community is back for the new financial year. The WARDY IT Community Dinner is typically held on the second Monday of the month and is a great opportunity to share knowledge, information and experiences...

The much anticipated release of SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 has been made just in time to be announced at the IT Professional week at Tech-Ed US. Andrew Fryer announced in this blog post that RC0 is available for download for MSDN and TechNet...

The WARDY IT Community Dinner is typically held on the second Monday of the month and is a great opportunity to share knowledge, information and experiences with other IT professionals in South East Queensland. This month the WARDY IT Community Dinner...

I have been rewarded for the second year as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) for Windows Server System - SQL Server. Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded...

Jeff Wharton will be presenting a session on SQL Server CE for developers at Code Camp Oz 2008 . Code Camp Oz is a free .Net community event that is held at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga (NSW) over the Anzac Day long weekend in April. For more...

Not only is Jeff Wharton presenting at Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals, but I am also. I will be presenting the session Using Server Management Objects to Manage Microsoft SQL Server ....

I will be presenting at the Wellington SQL Server User Group in New Zealand on Thursday the 13 th of March. In this session I will be presenting on SQL Server indexing and the new features in SQL Server 2008. For more details regarding this presentation...

The February 2008 edition of the WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Newsletter has been e-mailed to everyone on the distribution list. For those not on the distribution list you can view the newsletter using the following URL http://www.wardyit.com/newsletters/feb2008.htm...

As I travel around a lot of people see me running Windows Vista and are surprised. Often the comment is something like 'How can you run Vista and still be productive?'. I am the first to admit that there were challenges to start with. However these challenges...

The WARDY IT Community Dinner is typically held on the second Monday of the month and is a great opportunity to share knowledge, information and experiences with other IT professionals in South East Queensland. Due to popular demand we are finally heading...

Winning Speaker Idol 2007 at Tech-Ed Barcelona was not enough for Jeff Wharton . Not only will Jeff be presenting at Tech-Ed Europe 2008, he has just received notification that he will be presenting at Tech-Ed US 2008 in Orlando....

Over the last week there have been two significant rereleases for SQL Server. The first in the long anticipated release of the February Community Technology Preview for SQL server 2008 (aka CTP6) which can be downloaded from here . The second is Cumulative...

If you are looking for the Perfect gift for Valentine's Day then why not check out SQLServerDVD.com . Production of the first DVD with Kalen Delaney is almost complete hence the pre-order price of only $19.95 plus shipping is only available until Valentine's...

Don't miss the opportunity to see Kalen Delaney present on SQL Server Architecture, Internals and Optimisation. Kalen Delaney is the author of the bestselling books Inside SQL Server 2000, Inside SQL Server 2005 – The Storage Engine and Inside SQL Server...

The January 2008 edition of the WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Newsletter has been e-mailed to everyone on the distribution list. For those not on the distribution list you can view the newsletter using the following URL http://www.wardyit.com/newsletters/jan2008.htm...

MVP Chuck Boyce and I have started a new venture SQLServerDVD.com . SQLServerDVD.com will be focusing of developing world class SQL Server Training DVD's at prices that anyone can afford. The first DVD that is available is from Kalen Delaney and focuses...

The January 2008 release of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) can be downloaded from here ....

As of the 1 st of January I am the new Technical Editor for Sql-Server-Performance.com which is a site that has over 45,000 pages of SQL Server information. I am currently looking for authors that would like to publish regular articles for the site. Apart...

The WARDY IT Community Dinner is typically held on the second Monday of the month and is a great opportunity to share knowledge, information and experiences with other IT professionals in South East Queensland. The February WARDY IT Community Dinner is...

This month at the QLD SQL Server User Group we have a session on SQL Server data security titled Protecting the Crown Jewels & Your Butt. For more details regarding this event refer to here . Why not stay on after the session for a chance to catch-up...

I hope that you all had a great festive season and that however you spent the season, you are all refreshed for 2008. If one of your New Year's resolutions was to network with other IT professionals in Brisbane in order to share knowledge, information...

Jeff Wharton who is WARDY IT Solutions Chief Solutions Architect and the President for the Canberra SQL Server User Group was awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Server System - SQL Server on the 1 st of January 2008. This...