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I can speak English, I learn it from a book

Posted on February 16, 2012

Many many years ago when I was still in short trousers I started to take an interest in Movies. My parents had completely different sleeping patterns and my Father was an irritatingly early riser -a fact that would irritate me … Continue reading →

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What are the impersonation rights for my database users?

Posted on January 30, 2012

From time to time I get thrown the odd request to provide various bits of information from the SQL Server environment and most recently I was asked about a group of databases that required migrating to another instance. For some … Continue reading →

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SQLRally and beyond

Posted on January 25, 2012

I am almost ashamed to say that I have let over a month pass since my last post and truth be told I have come close a few times without never actually pressing that submit button. I shan’t bore you … Continue reading →

Posted in humour, learning, personaldevelopment, publicspeaking, sql, sqlbits, sqlpass, sqlrally, SQLServerPedia Syndication, summit, summit_2011 | 4 Comments