I’m starting a new series called Seven Sequels for SQL. In this series, I point you to seven sites where you can go beyond the nose-to-the-grindstone resources that we see every day as SQL Server professionals. These are the story that comes after and outside (the sequels) of our daily working lives (the other SQL). Let’s broaden our horizons together.
The Sequels for SQL Server: The Week of November 27, 2009
Filed Under: Cool Technologies, On-Line Resources, Opinion, Professional Development, Seven Sequels, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: Devices, FutureWatch, Gadgets, Humor, news analysis, Performance, Professional Development, Society, WorldView
Anniversary at Database Trends & Applications Magazine
I was happy to hear that the magazine Database Trends and Applications had recently relaunched their website. While I’d been a columnist there for a quite a while, I’d never been able to easily find my own articles nor check to see if they’d generated any interest. DBTA has changed all of that with their [...]
Filed Under: Conferences, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: DBA, news analysis, SQLPASS
Health Data Outcomes
I’ve opined in the past about how strongly I think the health care industry in the USA needs a does of information technology. One profession making impressive strides in this area is America’s nurses. On the one hand, we have NDNQI, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®). NDNQI is a repository for nursing-sensitive [...]
Filed Under: Gov2.0, Health2.0, Opinion Tagged With: Health Data
New Goodies from Microsoft – Microsoft Answers and Web Spark
Here are a couple of nifty resources that you should bookmark. Microsoft Answers Join the conversation as a community leader through a new, fast-growing Microsoft site called Microsoft Answers. The site currently focuses on Microsoft’s consumer products starting with Windows Vista. Throughout the fall (actually, starting on September 28th), Microsoft began to add forums for [...]
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Tools, Web Development
Clash of the Clouds
…when a major news magazine that speaks to a large number of CEOs and gray-haired types whose closest contact to email is having their admin send a message for them, it’s important to the world at large. Really important.
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: cloud computing, news analysis
SQL Server 5-Minute Health Check
Quest Software Pain of the Week Webcast: The 5-Minute SQL Server Healthcheck Join me and Christian Bolton, UK SQL Server MVP and blogger,as we discuss how to quickly evaluate the basic health of your SQL Server environment. You’ll learn about several quick checks you can perform in minutes to determine if critical thresholds are being [...]
Filed Under: Presentations, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: DBA, Monitoring, MVP, Performance
Where you can find me at the PASS Summit
In previous years, I hardly had time to sit down and catch a breather at a PASS Summit. Between my duties as an officer of PASS, exhibit hall time with Quest Software (my employer), speaking in my own sessions, and meeting with PASS volunteers and community organizers, I was busy from the crack of dawn [...]
Filed Under: Conferences, On-Line Resources, PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: CodePlex, DMV, SQLCAT, SQLPASS, Tools & Scripts
