I have been pretty busy over january and the first half of feburary and haven't had time to write any blogs, I did have an article on simple talk published:

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/sql-tools/connected-development-with-sql...

A couple of exciting things did happen, firstly I was allowed back into the friends of redgate programme - I like the redgate guys and am pleased to be back! Secondly I have been accepted into the Microsoft ALM Ranger programme which means I can help deliver some tooling and documentation as part of a team instead of beavering away by myself. I am particularly pleased about the ALM Rangers as I have been thinking about who is actually interested in better development practices and automated deployments for SQL Server and whereas I did originally think it would be SQL developers, I feel that the majority of SQL devs and especially DBA's are more focused on other things than improving their working practices so this is hopefully a way to help more people write and deploy code for SQL Server and databases in general 🙂

If you haven't heard of the ALM Rangers before, here are the details:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalmrangers/archive/2015/04/22/unders...

My introduction:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalmrangers/archive/2016/02/15/introd...

Finally my thanks really does go out to Danny Crone (http://www.nfocussoftwaretesting.com/page.aspx/Danny-Crone) who agreed to nominate me.

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