I’ll be speaking at a Southampton University careers event next week

Myself and a developer colleague of mine will be speaking about careers in the IT sector at a Southampton university careers event next week. http://www.student.careers.soton.ac.uk/EventCalendar/ We’re booked in on the 27th representing my current employer, dotDigital Group. Here at dDG we’re offering 3 paid internships next summer in the development group, and this event will… Continue reading I’ll be speaking at a Southampton University careers event next week

Recruitment Frenzy

dotDigital contains to grow at a fast rate. I’m currently recruiting the following roles: Javascript / .NET developer x 2 C# .NET developer x 3 SQL DBA UX / UI designer Head of Systems Senior System Administrator Desktop Support Engineer Product Owner SSIS / ETL / integration team leader All these positions are available now… Continue reading Recruitment Frenzy

using SQL Server DMV sys.dm_server_memory_dumps to scan for memory dumps

Whilst I was waiting for some very long running reporting code to run recently (a 365 million row table in tempdb was never going to be a good thing, but it wasn’t my doing, the business logic was forced upon me!) I was browsing various SQL 2012 items of interest and noticed that there was a… Continue reading using SQL Server DMV sys.dm_server_memory_dumps to scan for memory dumps

I’m recruiting a SQL Server DBA

I’m looking to recruit a SQL Server production DBA for my current employer, dotDigitalGroup. If you fancy coming and working on a big sector leading SaaS project with some very intelligent developers and technicians, check out the advert here http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/22183/sql-server-dba-dotdigital-group-plc?a=qcXiuBO and our dedicated job site with details about the team here http://www.dotdigitaljobs.com/

SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster setup fails on mount points

(Update from Monday morning, the workaround shown below works for me) Another day, another set up problem (sigh) I was installing a second SQL 2008 R2 instance on a new cluster today. The first one had gone well without incident but the second one had a crucial change in that it used mount points. It… Continue reading SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster setup fails on mount points

Example of SQL Server collation usage and problems

I was discussing with some developers this week why SQL Server collation mattered and what are typical things that can go wrong. This is a huge topic and is an often over looked feature of database and server design, especially when you want to build applications that run in multiple geographic locations and that should… Continue reading Example of SQL Server collation usage and problems

Business card printing by moo.com

I printed some new business cards for GlobalGoat Consultants this week, using my shiny new logo as designed by http://www.digitalgreen.co.uk/ . I used http://uk.moo.com/ for this service and can say that I was really happy with the results. Their interface was both simple to use and suitably variable enough to allow me to get exactly what i wanted and… Continue reading Business card printing by moo.com

I’ll be speaking at Kista Arbetsmarknadsdag (KAM) next week – 28th March

I’ll be speaking at Kista Arbetsmarknadsdag (KAM) next week on 28th March. It’s not a technical talk since it’s a career day for students, it’s a “this much I’ve learnt” type of talk about career building in the IT sector. I’ll be there representing Basefarm AB as I help then with their windows recruitment, as I… Continue reading I’ll be speaking at Kista Arbetsmarknadsdag (KAM) next week – 28th March