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Did you mean to come here? My blog is now at http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley
Tomorrow (Thursday 11th for those of you reading this later), we have the Adelaide SQL UG meeting as usual. Nick Ward speaking on Service Broker - should be good. Good crowd coming too - about 40 people again (that reminds me, I need to look through the lists to see if it's the same 40 each time).
Here's the new thing though - just before Nick gets up to speak, we're going to have a quick update from Carl Jongsma, a local security expert. He has stuff to tell us about some recent patches. More here once I've heard what he has to say.
The rumours are true. Adam Cogan is coming to Adelaide at the end of May. And I don't mean just roughly at the end of May, I mean the 31st. All afternoon. 12-4pm. That's a Wednesday too, so it'll be a nice mid-point to the week.
He's coming to do an event on VSTS. VSTS is so cool, and remarkably relevant to SQL users too.
Adam's going to be showing us about how it can help manage buglists and work items, things like that. Now, I know that SQL Developers always write bug-free code, but you can't deny there are times when you want to get someone else in your team to do something. So come along and find out how the Team bit of VSTS works.
This Thursday, Nick Ward from Microsoft will be at the Adelaide SQL group to speak about Service Broker. This is one of those meetings you will probably think "Oh, we don't do Service Broker, I won't bother going...", but you'd be wrong to do that! So wrong!
Fact is, Service Broker is one of those things that you have probably underestimated. It is a very powerful tool. So come along and find out why.
My wisdom teeth came out on Thursday. Apparently Day 3 is the worst for pain and swelling, and then after that, you swap from cold packs to hot ones, and start recovering. I don't know whether Day 3 is Saturday or Sunday, I guess it depends on whether you start counting from 0 or 1. I guess VB fans would say today is Day 3. I'd say it's tomorrow. Either way, I'll start using hot packs tomorrow, and hope that the pain reduces.
Pain killers are my friend... And I'm thinking I shouldn't've booked in to do exams on Tuesday and Wednesday (ones I didn't get to do in beta).
I've applied to become MCT, and now have 3 extra letters to go with the pile I already had. That makes it MCP, MCSD, MCAD, MCSD.Net, MCTS, MCITP, MCT. MCPD will come soon (with beta exam results hopefully), and I might do MCDBA with some of the vouchers, even though it's been superseded by MCITP.
MCLC is an interesting one. That's Learning Consultant. For people who train and also consult. So I figure that's something worth applying for some time. It's not available in Australia yet though. Plus, you have to be an MCT 'in good standing', not just a newbie MCT.
Seems SQL2005 SP1 (RTM) will become available on Wednesday April 19th. But that's US time. Keep your eye on sqlserver.org.au - it's bound to get mentioned there.
Geoff Orr spoke at the Adelaide SQL Server User Group today. He did a great job too! Made a talk about backups really quite interesting.
Lots of people have asked about the scripts he used in the talk, so I've uploaded them to http://www.sqlserver.org.au/resources/ViewResource.aspx?resourceId=54 for your downloading pleasure. Good luck with your presentation at Code Camp, Geoff. :)
I've had a bunch of people ask me how Seattle was. Apparently Seattle is famous for its rain. I know England is too. But I didn't get rained on the whole time I was away.
Seattle was pretty cool, but I'm convinced I went the wrong way around the world. Pacific Time was only 5.5 hours different to Adelaide (before Daylight Savings changed, and with a day thrown in there for fun). But in the evenings, it would feel like the afternoon. So midnight would come and go, and my body would be thinking it wasn't supposed to be up yet. Then morning would come, and I'd be like a teenager and want to sleep until noon.
So I didn't see fish fly, because I wasn't awake at the right times. But I did do other tourist stuff there, until my meetings started - forcing me to get up early. But they were good, and I got to meet a bunch of cool people (Scott, Bryan, Erick, Julian, Alberto, Lars and Fannie plus Microsoft people Greg, Jennifer, Julie and Glennie).
So then coming back to Adelaide, I had a stopover in the UK for a week. Got to catch up with family, friends and Arsenal. :) The score was 5-0, which made it a very nice match to watch. It was great to be at Highbury for one of the last matches there. Many thanks to Jeremy for the opportunity.
London is continuing to improve, I think. They're doing nice things down on the river at Wapping. PaterNoster Square near St Paul's is quite nice too, although not as nice as many of the other squares, like Trafalgar or Leicester.
I'm back in Adelaide again. I actually arrived back on Monday, but spent half the day asleep. Then yesterday I was trying to catch up with everything (along with aching from jet-lag). Now today, I feel like things are getting back to normal. Just in time for AdSSUG tomorrow (Geoff Orr's speaking - it'll be great), and then Easter.
I won't be at ADNUG tonight - school concert on, featuring Samuel on saxophone. And I won't be at CodeCampOz next weekend either. Having been away for a while, family time is coming first. Shame really, but that's fine - there will be other events.
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