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SQLSaturday 382 Brisbane

December 7th, 2014

The SQLSaturday show is coming to Brisbane again in 2015. Put a reminder in your calendar now for Saturday 28th March, 2015 for your free day of SQL Server and Business Intelligence (BI) training from some of Australia’s leading SQL Server experts. 

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SQLSaturday #352–Sydney

September 16th, 2014

Well SQLSaturday is on again in Sydney with SQLSaturday #352 being held on Saturday 25th October, 2014 at the University of Sydney. SQLSaturday provides a day of free SQL & BI training from some of Australia’s SQL Server Community enthusiasts.

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SQLSaturday #316–Christchurch

May 20th, 2014

SQLSaturday #316 has been finalized and is happening in Christchurch on June 14 2014. If you have not registered already there is still time for you to register for this day of free SQL Server training. I am lucky enough to be joining a fellow MCM – Brent McCracken to present in Christchurch.

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TechEd 2014 Australia

May 7th, 2014

TechEd 2014 in Australia now has a new format. This year there is twice the event, Starting in Melbourne and followed by in Sydney. Pre-register is now available.

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AlwaysOn Availability Groups: What not to do when adding databases

April 6th, 2014

SQL Server's AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a very resilient way of providing High-availability for SQL Server databases, but there are inevitable limits to their capacity. How many database can you reasonable add? it depends on the resources available and the workload, but you can come up with a reasonable estimate as Warwick explains

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SQLSaturday #296–Melbourne

February 26th, 2014

SQLSaturday is coming to Australia again in 2014. This time it kicks off with SQLSaturday #296 in Melbourne on Saturday 5th April. If you are in the Melbourne area and would like some free SQL Server training from some MVP’s, MCM’s and speakers who are well regarded in the SQL Server community then register now.

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Expanding AlwaysOn Availability Groups with Replication Subscribers

January 31st, 2013

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

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Expanding AlwaysOn Availability Groups with Replication Publishers

January 30th, 2013

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

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SQL Server 2012 : Availability Groups Creation Error

July 19th, 2012

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups can be pretty easy to create and configure but unless you have designed your environment you may hit the following error when trying to create the Availability Group with the Wizard. To find out more read on ……

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Encrypting your SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability database

July 6th, 2012

It is likely that you'll want to add a database with TDS Encryption to your AlwaysOn Availability Group. If you do so you'll find that you can't use the SSMS wizard to do so. So, how do you achieve it? Read on…

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SQL Server 2012 : AlwaysOn demonstration

May 18th, 2012

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn provides you the ability to control your SQL Server environment with more control to meet your High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements. These 2 videos take you through setting up your environment as well as monitoring your environment.

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Pass SQLSaturday #137

April 11th, 2012

The schedule for SQLSaturday #137 in Canberra has been released. To help you arrange your day to see the sessions you are most interested in.

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Hi, I'm Warwick Rudd, I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting.
In my blog I will look at all things SQL Server as well as some things outside of the SQL Server relm but hopefully you will find them helpful and interesting.

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