I just received an email from Microsoft 3 days ago, stated that I’m awarded as an MVP again. This is my 3rd year renewal, thanks!
Dear Muhammad Amri,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary efforts in Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated.
There are several notes for this year renewal:
- I’m awarded as a Singapore MVP, and no longer Indonesian MVP. Since I moved to here for my job, my MVP lead transferred my award status to Singapore.
- Despite my award that belong to Singapore region, I’m still going to continue my activities for Indonesian communities such as IlmuKomputer.Com and SQL Server Indo. I’m still on my commitment to do writing and participating in online forum.
- I did several writings for SQLServerCentral last year, and I want to increase it next year. I will participate more on global online portal and Singapore communities.
Hopefully I can do better next year 
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I received Friend of Red Gate gift several weeks ago. It’s a very good package, contained of T-Shirt, mug, USB drive, and pen handler. Red Gate treated community building seriously. As a one of the major player of SQL Server and .Net toolkit, the importance of community building is make sense. Community leader spread a good word about the product and helps increase revenue in the long term
Another advantage of becoming Friend of Red Gate is get the free copy of all Red Gate tools. Of course only for non commercial purpose. I really love SQL Compare, save me a lot of time when doing deployment and testing between development machine and production server. It compares all of the database structures and schema, and I can choose to merge or override between those databases. Also, SQL Data Compare is able to compare the database content, examine the differences, and decide to merge or override. It’s really eliminate my headache during development and maintenance.
Another tool like SQL Log rescue is also available for free. This tool allow us to restore back any changes that we have made, even when you want to restore any single rows :). Of course we already have transaction log backup in SQL Server. But log backup only can do restore to specified point of time, or on specified mark. We can not restore only a single row instead of restore the whole log backup. That’s why 3rd party tools like SQL Log Rescue or Lumigent Log Explorer come in to the picture.
How do you became a Friend of Red Gate? If you have any publications like a blog, articles, web site, or manage a user group, than you’re eligible for apply. The bottom line is, if you are a community influential, than simply drop them a mail. A friend of mine Dondy is also a Friend of Red Gate :).
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I will speak for SQL Server User Group Indonesia monthly meeting on April 30, 2007. Yes, I will be in Jakarta at that time. Meet with many old friends, community enthusiast, most of them are SQL Server and .Net addict :). Â
I’m preparing 2 hours presentation about SQL Server Security. This is a big topic, so I limit the scope just for development area. The title should be SQL Server Security: A Developer Perspective. It contains some demos about common developer mistakes when dealing with SQL Server. It’s about something beyond the firewall, yes. When your firewall offers NO protection ;).
I’m proud with the growth of SQLUG-ID. Since I established this group about 2 years ago, It shows tremendous growth. New member come every week, and new posting appear everyday. We have consistent monthly meeting that attended by 20-30 members on average. We even made one MVP (yes Kiki!) that has the root from this group. I hope there will be more new MVP awarded to the active member of this group.
See you at BEJ Building 18th floor, Microsoft Office.
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Sunday evening, Singapore time. I received email from MVP team stated that I’m awarded for the second year. Thanks, This award belong to my community: IlmuKomputer.Com, SqlServer-Indo, and INDC.
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Dear Muhammad Amri,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award!
The Microsoft MVP Award is our way of saying thank you and to honor and support the significant contributions you make to communities worldwide. As a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award, you join an elite group of technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing your real world expertise with users and Microsoft. Microsoft salutes all MVPs for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success everyday. To learn more about the MVP Program, visit: www.microsoft.com/mvp.
Your extraordinary efforts in Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated. The benefits you will enjoy as a recipient of the MVP Award are outlined below.
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Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary efforts in Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated. 
