tonyrogerson@torver.net

 office: 01582 346 161

Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
SQL Server Specialist

Tony has over 20 years industrial experience gained through his work within the IT industry. He is a highly respected and leading figure in the UK SQL Server Community recognised through his work as founder and chairman of the highly successful UK SQL Server User Group and for participation as an Expert at Microsoft events (Ask The Experts and presentation) and finally as part of his contribution as a SQL Server MVP for which he has been awarded yearly since 1998.

Tony is trusted amongst his broad client base from enterprise to university research fellow, a selection of his clients include Redburn Partners, Renault F1, Quartix, Cardinus, Photobox, XMA and Bank of America.

He provides support, development, stand-in DBA resource, migration assistance, troubleshooting, business intelligence and training, basically anything SQL Server centric, he can work remotely using extensive resources at his office and hosting facility or on-site.

Recent Entries on Tony's Blog

Hopping mad frog wants to learn SQL Server
Determining Backup or Restore Percent Complete in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005
Licence "experts" - SQL 2008 Standard Clustering and the Active/Passive requirements
My new word: Automatonmattic
Tonight on LiveMeeting -> SQL 2008 R2 and Gemini; From Data Modelling to Information Architecture and Attribute Relationships, Aggregations and using MDX Studio to its best
Job in Bristol; MS SQL Server DBA OLAP developer - Permanent.
UK SQL Server User Group - LiveMeeting tonight - Integrating Data Mining into your BI Solution
Satya's good find - MS Press free ebook on "Introducing SQL Server 2008"
UK SQL Server User Group - Weekly LiveMeetings sorted; Leeds Perf Troubleshooting tomorrow night + BI LiveMeeting Thursday
June 10th BI Event in Reading; SQL 2008 R2 & Gemini; Data Modelling to Info Architecture; Attribute Relationships, Aggregations & using MDX studio to its best
LiveMeeting recording for my SQL Server Toolset intro (part 1) is now available
SQL User Group - tonight is Edinburgh; tomorrow a Live Meeting on the SQL Server toolset
SQL User Group - ADO.NET + Windows 7 indepth tomorrow evening; Live Meetings starting soon, Edinburgh and Cambridge new event
This months event for the SQL User Group - Manchester this Thurs; Reading next Wednesday
Thurs 13th May - Reading; Understanding ADO.NET Data Services and Windows 7 features in-depth.
SQL User Group Email - what's coming up in April, May and June.
Vista RDP (mstsc) blank/black screen and ATBroker.exe error - the workround
SQL Server 2008 SP1 is released
SQL Server Technical Rollup - Lots of Useful Documents, News, Events and New KB articles
Creating an output CSV using FOR XML and multiple rows

Recent Articles from Tony

Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 - Video presentation
The new features of SQL Server 2005 are well worth the upgrade effort, but how do you upgrade your e....
FOR XML basics, CLR basics, Web Service - presented at PASS Europe - 2006-02-23T13:00:00
These are the examples including slides for the event I presented at on 23 Feb 2006; I go through ba....
SQL Server 2005 - Optimistic Concurrency
Supporting slides for webcast on optimistic concurrency, look at row versioning, ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOL....
SQL Server 2005 Optimistic Concurrency - Examples
Examples of how to use READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT, ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION and a talk about row versio....
Simply Fed! Develop a simple data feed from a third party database
This article shows a simple approach to creating an effective platform for providing reporting and a....
Fragmentation - NTFS Volumes and SQL Server (PPT)
RAID (PPT)
Cursors