About

I am the Technical Editor to SQL Server on Linux (published 2018, McGraw-Hill), and Technical Reviewer to High Performance SQL Server: Consistent Response for Mission-Critical Applications 2nd Edition (published 2021, Apress), SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization: Optimize Microsoft SQL Server 2022 queries and applications (published 2022, Apress), and Expert SQL Server Transactions and Locking Concurrency Internals for SQL Server Practitioners (published 2018, Apress).

I am a strong believer in community and have previously founded and lead SQLSaturday Cambridge, SharePoint Saturday Cambridge (both of which we rolled into SPS SQL Saturday Cambridge for their last couple of editions), East Anglia SQL Server User Group, SQL Nexus in Denmark (as co-founder), and the Hybrid Virtual Group (of which is still running with my good friend Mikael). I have been a recipient of the PASS Outstanding Volunteer award and Microsoft Community Contributor awards.

I am an experienced international conference speaker, having delivered sessions to hundreds of on-premises and online events around the world including Microsoft Future Decoded, PASS Summit, SQLRally, SQLSaturday, SQL Nexus, SQLBits, 24 Hours of PASS, and SQLRelay.

More about me

In what would at one time have been a list as long of your arm of websites that mentioned me for a variety of my professional and community activies, has now over time dwindled to a handful of references. I’ve kept the remaining links for posterity (and no doubt a minor twinge of narcicism!) but slowly over time these will themselves cease to exist. It’s all quite sad in a way since old memories and reflections in other peoples blogs are slowly falling out of existance as time moves ever slowly forward (particularly those who were once good friends), but those that remain are interesting to me nether-the-less.

Book Review: High Performance SQL Server by Greg Low
Geeks on Screens with Coffee Season 1 with Mark Pryce-Maher and guest Mark Broadbent
SQL SERVER KONFERENZ 2019: Implementing Delayed Durability in SQL Server presented by Mark Broadbent
I was awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP by Jens Vestergaard
SPS Cambridge 2017 review by Paul Hunt
Dear SQLDBA by Kendra Little
UK TechDays Online 2016 - A few of my favourite things in SQL Server 2016 hosted by Andrew Fryer and presented by Mark Broadbent
Creative entertainment at SQL Saturday Cambridge by Redgate’s Annabel Bradford
Using aliases for SharePoint databases by Régis Baccaro
Nikoport PASS Summit 2014 Recap by Niko Neugebauer
PASS Summit 2014….here it comes by Wendy Pastrick
Ask SQL Family 004 with Kamil Nowinski and guest Mark Broadbent
2014 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for SQL Server by Régis Baccaro
SQLCambs review by Matt Smith
SqlSaturday #267 – my chosen sessions by Pedro Simoes
PASS Summit 2013 Program Survey Results
History repeats itself… by Jens Vestergaard
My Experience As a SQL Bits First Timer by Matt Saunders
Announcing DiTBits at SQLBits by Jen Stirrup
SQL Saturday in Edinburgh on June 2013 by Ibrahim Naji
What’s protected from accidental deletion in Active Directory? by Rhys Campbell
PASS Summit 2012 – Day 4 Recap by Hope Foley
SQLSaturday #162: Cambridge, England by Aaron Bertrand
A few laps around the SQLRally Track by SQLAJ
Going to SQLSaturday #162 Cambridge by Niko Neugebauer
SQL Saturday #162 - Cambridge, UK by Derek Colley
The PoSh DBA: Solutions using PowerShell and SQL Server by Laerte Junior
Let the PASS Summit 2011 Begin! Wednesday Keynote by Stacia Varga
SQLBits 9–”Oops, I did it again” or “Come together” by Dirk Hondong
T-SQL Tuesday #13 Roundup by Steve Jones