April 2007 - Posts

• QUT SQL Server Presentation

  If you are a QUT student and interested in SQL Server then why not pop along to the SQL Server Talk @ QUT on Friday the 4th of May at 3:00PM. At this SQL Server Talk I will be presenting on the importance of SQL Server in the market place as well as some Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:38 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• May WARDY IT Community Dinner

  The WARDY IT Community Dinner is a great opportunity to network with other IT professionals in order to share knowledge, information and experiences. The May WARDY IT Community Dinner is being held on Monday the 21st of May. To RSVP to be at this event Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:39 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• April QLD SQL Server User Group

  This month we are in for a real treat as we have Danny Tambs from Microsoft Consulting Services presenting a Mystery Session. He intends to present on either Partial Database Availability or Performance Tuning. Based on the whitepaper SQL Server 2005 Read More... Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 1:29 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• Tech-Ed 2007 (Australia)

  With just over 3 months until Tech-Ed Australia early bird booking have opened. Tech-Ed is being held on the Gold Coast from the 7th-10th of August . You have until the 21st of May to take advantage of the early bird pricing and save $400 off the standard Read More... Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 1:16 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• Unpivot Comma Delimited Column

  I recently came across a scenario where the description in a column was being stored in a comma delimited column as illustrated by the Products table below. This table needed to be unpivoted so that the columns where rotated into column values. The following Read More... Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 3:29 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• March SQL Server Newsletter

  The March 2007 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/mar2007.htm Read More... Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 2:39 PM by admin | (Comments Off)

• MVP Windows Server System - SQL Server

  On the way back from Code Camp Oz last night I received an email on my K-Jam with the subject ‘ Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award!’. I am extremely proud, yet humbled at the same time to have been awarded an MVP Windows Server Read More... Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 8:00 AM by admin | 2 Comments