Tony Bain

AUSTRALIA: SQL Server 64 Bit Seminar

Unisys, Intel, Microsoft and Red Rock Consulting (us) are presenting the following free seminar throughout Australia during February and March.

Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition 64 bit is here. Now What?

DBAs, Database Architects and Data Warehouse Architects this technical seminar is just for you. Here you will learn the benefits of SQL Server 64-bit Edition and how you can leverage these new features for improved performance.

Guest speakers Tony Bain and David Lean will anchor this half-day event.

http://www.rsvp.au.com/sqlseminars/

Career Opportunities for SQL Server Professionals

We (Red Rock SQL Services http://sqlservices.redrock.net.au) are hiring again so this is an invitation for SQL Server professionals based in Australia or New Zealand to forward me their CV’s. Before you do that, let me just reiterate several key points that you should be aware of before you do this.

We are now, I believe, the leading specialist SQL Server consulting and support organization in Australasia. We work on the most interesting and diverse SQL Server projects in the region, and support some of the biggest companies and their environments.

We are a specialist division, i.e. all we do is SQL Server all day every day. The people we hire therefore will have a proven long term commitment to specializing in SQL Server. People who have worked in technology diverse roles (e.g. as an Oracle / DB2 / SQL Server DBA) will be at a disadvantage as I want people who have already made and demonstrated the career choice of being dedicated to SQL Server. Multiple skills are of course very good, but you should have been predominately SQL Server focused for some time.

We are not in a rush; we hire the right people at the right time, based on our sustainable market growth. This could mean we talk with you for a couple of months before you come onboard. We do have opportunities right now but also don’t be disappointed if you’re not offered a position straight away.

You should be well skilled and have several years of experience. Sorry, we do not have any junior positions.

We are a customer focused business and all resources must be able to engage in communication with our customers. No back room DBA’s please.

We service customers all over Australia and New Zealand. Travel is part of life.

We are not currently looking for application developers, no VB.NET / ASP.NET / SQL Server programmers please.

Another interesting thing you may like to know before applying is the way our resources operate when performing work for our customers. When delivering solutions or support for customers you deliver using our predefined processes to our set of best practices. All documentation and deliverables are produced to our quality levels and all units of work will be project managed. Your thoughts and opinions, skills and experiences are very important to us and you will actively involved in contributing these, however this contribution will take place offsite during our regular, ongoing review and improvement cycles of our processes and best practices. When delivering solutions to customers we all deliver using these processes to our agreed levels of quality without exception. When we are providing services to mission critical, production SQL Server environments there is no ad-hoc, seat of the pants stuff going on. Ensure your personality will be comfortable with this, as there are no exceptions.

We are without a doubt the leading experts in Australasia in complex SQL Server issues such as performance optimization, high concurrency, VLDB and high availability. You will be given the resources and opportunities to develop your skill set in these areas and become a leader in your field.

If you are interested flick your CV to tony@tonybain.com

SQL Server 2005 FOD: Security Context != Ownership Chaining

A key point that I made in my recent SQL Server 2005 Security presentation @ Tech Ed is that Execution Context is not the same as permissions checking via ownership chains....

http://www.tonybain.com/blog/posts/229.aspx

(this is posted on my other blog)

SQL Server 2005 Feature Of The Day

The release date for SQL Server 2005 is currently sometime around the middle of next year. This gives us enough time for everyone to gradually learn lot’s about what is new in the next version before it hits the shelves (and our servers).

To help facilitate this I have decided to post an overview of a New SQL Server 2005 Feature every day until the release date. So that’s about 300 new features, but don’t worry, there is plenty to cover. If you know people who want to learn Yukon in digestable chunks, flick them a link to my blog as I think this is going to be a lot of fun!

Past Tech Ed presentations

This morning I finanlly reposted my presentations from previous Microsoft Tech Ed's. For all those who have request these earlier, sorry for the delay...

http://sqlservices.redrock.net.au/events.htm

Tech Ed 2004 Australia

This year I am doing one session at Tech Ed Australia in Canberra, SQL Server 2005 Security. This session will cover a lot of the new features and changes in the security architecture of the next release of SQL Server.

This session is on:

Friday 6 August – 2.30-3.45pm

I will be in Canberra late Thursday and Friday morning, if anyone would like to meet up to discuss anything SQL Server let me know (tony@tonybain.com). I’ll do my best to make time around the event organized activities.

Tech Ed 2004 New Zealand

This year I am doing one session at Tech Ed New Zealand in Auckland, SQL Server 2005 Security. This session will cover a lot of the new features and changes in the security architecture of the next release of SQL Server.

This session is on:

Wednesday 4 August - 3.45-5.05pm

I will be in Auckland late Tuesday and all day Wednesday, if anyone would like to meet up to discuss anything SQL Server let me know (tony@tonybain.com). I’ll do my best to make time around the event organized activities.