October 27, 2017
Over on our Blogs Site, Manu has put together a great article about Transactional Replication to Azure SQL DB, which hit General Availability this week.
Welcome to
LobsterPot.
Improving your data story.
LobsterPot Solutions is an Australian SQL Server and Business Intelligence consultancy, offering consultancy and training services. LobsterPot Solutions specialises in the Microsoft Data Platform, including Power BI, SQL Server and Azure, from data resilience to data analytics, to Big Data and IoT, and of course performance tuning, health checks, and more. With experts in both Melbourne and Adelaide, we can help your organisation become more data-driven.
LobsterPot Solutions is a company of firsts. When the Microsoft Partner Network went live, we were the first company in Australia to become a Gold Competency Partner, the first in the world to gain the Gold Competency in Business Intelligence. Since then we have become the first to employ three Australian SQL MVPs, the first company in the whole Asian region to have an APS / PDW trainer on staff, and have been involved in training other trainers in the region.
News and Events
Blog site now live
October 21, 2017
For well over ten years, Rob has been blogging, writing technical articles on a variety of topics. It’s about time we brought those posts in-house, as well as providing a location for other team members to post. Rob will continue to provide articles for sqlperformance.com, but his backlog of posts, along with other new material can be found at:
http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au
(Company news will still be posted here at www.lobsterpot.com.au)
PowerShell Intro
September 12, 2017
Rob Farley recently wrote a introduction piece about PowerShell for sqlperformance.com. If you’re a SQL Server user or an Azure user, and you’re not using PowerShell, then you should go and read https://sqlperformance.com/2017/09/sql-performance/need-to-know-powershell
Three Australian MVPs again
January 3, 2017
It’s been a while since we’ve had three Australian Data Platform MVPs within the company. We’ve been there before, in the time between Martin Cairney’s award and Julie Koesmarno’s leaving to join Microsoft. But as of today we’re back at three as the amazing Manohar Punna joins the company (the other two MVPs being Rob Farley and Martin). Manohar writes about it here.
Big SQL Server news
November 17, 2016
There were a couple of big announcements from Microsoft overnight at the “Connect(); // 2016” event in New York. Each of these will potentially be huge for the SQL Server engine.
Panellist Martin at the Churchill Club meeting
July 14, 2016
Writing this, the meeting is tonight (July 14th)!
LobsterPot Solutions are sponsoring the Churchill Club’s event that’s being held at The Cluster in Melbourne (which is where our offices are), and Martin has been asked to appear on the panel. It’s a discussion about data – the collection of data, the analysis of data, and the significance of data – so it’s the perfect topic for LobsterPot and Martin.
There’s still time to register (if you’re reading this on July 14th), so hopefully we’ll see you there!
Once again, presenting at the PASS Summit
June 26, 2016
Every year that LobsterPot Solutions has been sending people to the PASS Summit, we’ve also had presenters. From 2010 when Rob Farley attended his first PASS Summit, through to this year, that’s seven consecutive years of having LobsterPot Solutions’ employees on the presenter list. And it hasn’t just been Rob Farley who has been presenting – in fact, Rob didn’t present in 2012 or 2014. But Martin Cairney and former employees Julie Koesmarno and Roger Noble have given presentations while on the team.
Education sector webinar on Power BI
June 26, 2016
We’ve had a number of customers in the education sector. Sometimes schools, sometimes universities, sometimes the Education Department within one of the state governments. Every time we work with these organisations we are thrilled to see that data is coming to the forefront of people’s thinking. And it’s a tremendous honour to be asked to present to Microsoft customers within the education sector as part of Microsoft’s Education Tech Series. Register at http://aka.ms/edupowerbiwebinar, or read on for more.
US presentations coming up
September 7, 2015
As usual, LobsterPot employees will be heading to the PASS and MVP Summits in the Seattle region this year, and if you will be in the Pacific Northwest, you will have the chance to hear some of us present. Martin Cairney will be presenting at the pre-Summit SQL Saturday in Portland, and Rob Farley will be presenting at the PASS Summit in Seattle. This will Rob’s tenth presentation at the annual PASS Summit, including regular sessions, spotlight sessions, lightning talks, and his 2011 pre-con.
Another US hire – welcome Mickey Stuewe!
January 12, 2015
The US side of LobsterPot Solutions is going well, and we have brought on another staff member. We’re hugely excited to announce that we’ve hired well-known SQL expert Mickey Stuewe!
Mickey fits into the LobsterPot culture really well. Not only is she a recognised expert in SQL Server, with a history in training (she has been a Microsoft Certified Professional longer than almost anyone I know, and has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer), but she is very community-minded. She presented an advanced session on Reporting Services at the PASS Summit a couple of months ago, and is the founder of the BI and SQL Server User Group near where she lives in Orange County, California. She blogs, also presents regularly at SQL Saturday events and Red Gate’s SQL in the City events, and was voted the “Best New Community Voice” in last year’s Tribal Awards.
She is a leading light in the SQL Server space, and it’s a tremendous honour to welcome her to LobsterPot Solutions.