Tony Rogerson's ramblings on SQL Server

I'm a member of the Harpenden Lions club having recently been inducted, this is a great opportunity for me to get out in the community and help and meet other people, if you are interested in that type of thing and live around Harpenden give me a shout and come to our meetings and get involved.

Anyway to the story; last night the club went for dinner at the House of Commons with Peter Lilley MP as our host; amazing place - absolutely fantastic.

I took a couple of friends along one of which is a long time friend Trevor Dwyer who some will know from his SQL Server MVP days, as you could guess there is a bit of an age difference between club members and me and Trevor so we where the babies of the group, also we where the only two people who forgot to wear a tie! Whoops! That was the first funny thing; the second was Trevor wanting a smoke - because he couldn't go out of the commons he had to be escorted to an area by a guy with a machine gun and accompanied while he finished ***; mind you that said it's probably not such a bad idea :).

After the meal and dinner speech Peter Lilley took us on a tour and actually into the chamber itself which is absolutely great - the wood work etc... very strange being so close to the dispatch boxes - a bit weird seeing it on TV today. The great hall which survived the great fire of London is very impressive too.

A very humbling experience that I would highly recommend anybody if you get the chance.