Rod Colledge is a principal consultant with StrataDB, a SQL Server consultancy business based in Brisbane, Australia. He’s the author of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action, was a technical editor and author on the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives books, writes for Quest and Simple-talk, is a frequent speaker at local SQL Server user groups, and has received the SQL Server MVP award each year since January 2010.
Rod blogs here at rodcolledge.com, is the founder and operator of sqlCrunch.com, and was a highly rated speaker at the 2009, 2011 and 2012 PASS Summits in Seattle and TechEd Australia 2010. He enjoys spending time with his young family and playing golf and guitar very badly!
Recent Blog Posts ...
See you in Chicago ... March 2013
Using Policy-based Management to Check Sysadmin Membership ... December 8, 2010
Unrelated Dimensions ... October 25, 2010
SSAS: Dynamic Security, Kerberos and PerformancePoint ... October 13, 2010
Project Phoenix ... September 12, 2010
Distinct Count NULL & Analysis Services ... April 23, 2010
Built to last ... for how long? ... March 23, 2010
Fun with SSIS - Part 1 - Troubleshooting ... February 9, 2010
PASS Presentation Evaluation Results ... January 13, 2010
MVP! ... January 4, 2010
Business Intelligence Roadkill ... and the Politics of Change ... December 21, 2009
The Great DBA Schism ... August 25, 2009
Speaking Events ...
Self-Service Business Analytics in 2013
- April 11 2013, PASS Business Analytics Conference, Chicago
BI Dashboards with Dashboard Designer & PerformancePoint Services 2010 (Full Day Pre-Con)
- November 5, 2012, PASS Summit 2012
BI Architecture with SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010
- November 7, 2012, PASS Summit 2012
- April 12 2012, SQL Saturday #135
- April 21 2012, SQL Saturday #138
A Lap Around SQL Azure
- April 12 2012, SQL Saturday #135
- March 21 2012, Brisbane Azure User Group
Creating Business Intelligence Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010
- October 13 2011, PASS Summit 2011
- September 28 2011, Perth SQL Server User Group
- June 23 2011, QLD SQL Server User Group
SSMS; Tips, Tricks and What's New in R2
- August 27 2010, TechEd Australia
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
- March 16 2010, Melbourne SQL Server User's Group
- March 25 2010, Brisbane SQL Server User's Group
DBAs Behaving Badly - Worst Practices ... for Database Administrators
- November 4 2009, PASS Summit Seattle, USA
- October 6 2009, Canberra SQL Server Users Group
- September 24 2009, Brisbane SQL Server Users Group
Top Features in SQL Server 2008
- April 3 2008, Brisbane SQL Server Users Group
Press...
CIO Magazine, November 5 2008 - Understanding Service Level Agreements
Interview with Denis Gobo, October 12 2009
Simple-talk.com, 16 March 2010 - Planning for Disaster
Quest.com, 30 March 2010 - Automating DBA Processes for Microsoft SQL Server
Quest Poster, August 2010 - SQL Server Perfmon Counters of Interest
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