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About Rod Colledge ...

 

Rod Colledge is lead consultant with DWS. 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!

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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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