Rob Farley
Blog URL http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley
Located Adelaide, South Australia Australia
Tags sql, user group, microsoft
Rob Farley is a SQL MVP based in Adelaide. He runs LobsterPot Solutions, and the Adelaide SQL Server User Group. He is a regular presenter at conferences.
Latest Blog Posts
- StreamInsight talk coming up at SQLBits on Nov 20, 2009 in community sql sql server 2008 sql bits streaminsight
My talk on StreamInsight is up next. I’ll try to blog more about that later. For now, I want to mention more about SQLBits itself. This is by far the largest SQL-only conference I’ve attended (I haven’t been to SQL-PASS yet), and it’s great t...
- SQLBits V, in Old South Wales on Nov 13, 2009 in community sql bits
I recently gave a talk in New South Wales, so now I’m going to give one in Old South Wales. In Newport, to be precise. As I’ve written before, I’ve been a big fan of the SQLBits conferences that is run by many UK-based friends of mine. Unfortu...
- Finding the Microsoft File Transfer Manager on Nov 11, 2009 in powershell windows
This is really just a reminder blog post for me. Way too often I find that I have closed the Microsoft File Transfer Manager for one reason or another, and I want to start it up again to resume some download from my MSDN Subscription. Like today, I n...
- Darryl Burling’s podcast on Nov 3, 2009 in podcasts
Seems strange to write about this, as NZ Product Manager for SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk and Visual Studio Darryl Burling has just announced that he’s leaving the SQL, BizTalk and Visual Studio products, replacing them with Exchange Server and...
- Non-Administrators couldn’t log in, and Admins couldn’t Run As Admin on Oct 24, 2009 in windows
One of the Windows 7 machines in my house had a problem recently. Non-admins couldn’t log in, and there was a message saying that the System Event Notification Service wasn’t running. I could log in as admin, but couldn’t escalate to run things...
- Book review: Windows 7 Inside Out on Oct 24, 2009 in book review windows
Perhaps it’s because I keep finding new things about Windows 7 that I really like... Today’s one was that you can drag the top (or bottom) edge of a window to the edge of a screen and have that window fill the screen vertically, but keeping the l...
- Book review: Programming Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Oct 19, 2009
I don’t consider myself really in the Dynamics CRM space. My area is SQL Server. Currently I’m spending most of my time in the Business Intelligence space, with plenty of stuff with relational databases as well. But that didn’t stop me from pic...
