Rodney C. Colledge

Rod Colledge was born in Brisbane, Australia, where he currently resides with his wife and two young children. After graduating with a degree in information technology in 1994, Rod worked in a variety of development and support roles before beginning to specialize in SQL Server development and administration in 1996. Since then, Rod has been involved in many large SQL Server development projects in industries including financial services, real estate, law enforcement, and gaming, as well as for state and federal government.

In 1999, Rod was the lead architect of a custom SQL Server replication solution for a Fijian organization, a challenging project involving bidirectional transactional replication of financial transactions over poor-quality communications lines linking Fijian islands.

Rod is currently the technical team leader of the Education Corporate Reporting and Business Intelligence project at the department of Education and Training in Queensland, Australia.

Through his own SQL Server development and consultancy business, Rod’s recently completed projects include a SQL Server 2005 data warehouse and reporting services solution and a web-based license management/asset register system.

Rod has developed a specialty in both the development and administration of very large database systems based on SQL Server. He is an active participant in the Queensland SQL Server Users Group, is the founder and editor of www.sqlCrunch.com, and blogs at www.rodcolledge.com.

books by Rodney C. Colledge

SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action
  • July 2009
  • ISBN 9781933988726
  • 464 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Databases / Database Platforms

SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action focuses the production DBA, digging deep into the various tasks specific to that role. Expert author Rod Colledge — check him out at sqlCrunch.com — teaches you best practices that cover the lifecycle of a SQL Server system, including infrastructure design, installation, and operational maintenance. And while many of these techniques will work in any recent version of SQL Server, you'll find full coverage of emerging SQL Server 2008 best practices.

Each technique is presented in a task-driven style, and in the order of the typical life cycle of a SQL Server system. This allows you to easily open the book at the appropriate page and focus on what you need to know for each specific situation.