Good grief, there's a lot of travel in my immediate future. <sigh ... deep breath> It'll be exhausting and it'll be hard to lose so much time with the family. But if I'm able to avoid travel mishaps, it'll be fun. Meet Me In St. Louis I'll be speaking in St. Louis, MO on Tuesday, September 14th for their mid-day meeting. The details, as I have them, are: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1-4pm Location: Microsoft St. Louis Office, Three City Place Drive, Suite 1100, St. Louis, MO … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2010
See You in St Louis, and then London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and York, UK
Filed Under: Conferences, Databases, Presentations, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: DBA, Developer, Events, SQL Server 2008 R2, Training
DBTA: The Future of Coding for SQL Server
In a two-part article over the next two months, I'm going to address an important issue for the SQL Server community: the future direction of coding for SQL Server, as directed by Microsoft. I'll start by telling you a bit about the current situation with writing code on and for SQL Server, and, in the next installment, talk more about the ramifications brought on by the current coding environment. I'm curious if you agree with my assertions. You also have the added advantage of hindsight, since I wrote these a while ago. [READ MORE] … [Read more...]
Filed Under: DBTA, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Transact-SQL Programming, Trends Tagged With: DBTA, Developer, FutureWatch, SQL Server 2008 R2
I took the weekend off from email. Oh the horror that was awaiting this morning! … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Uncategorized
Free Poster – SQL Server PerfMon Counters
You Needs It! You Wants It! We all know how hard troubleshooting SQL Server can be. There are tools and techniques that can make troubleshooting much easier, such as the Windows System Monitor. The only problem with SysMon, or more commonly "PerfMon", is that it takes a lot of knowledge and experience to know which objects and counters to examine. I've put together a nice poster for you covering all of the important PerfMon counters for SQL Server troubleshooting, with a little help from some of my friends: Brent Ozar, Bob Ward, Christian Bolton, and Raoul Illyes. You Can Has It Fer … [Read more...]
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, Presentations, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: DBA, SQL Server 2008 R2, Tools, Training, Troubleshooting
Political Calculus – PASS Nominations
Pardon me, sir. Do I have a dog in this fight? After my term of service on the PASS board of directors ended in December of 2009, I fully intended to stay far, far out of the way. It's an intention that I've largely been able to fulfill,excluding the odd conversation with an occasional board member or committee chair looking for a little impartial advice when weighing some consideration or other. If you keep up with going's on within PASS, then you'll know that there's been some hullabaloo lately. Please reference paragraph 1 again at this point to understand that I don't really … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Challenges, Ethics, Governance, Opinion, PASS, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies Tagged With: news analysis, Professional Development, SQLPASS
Plays Well With Others – Strong Leadership During Weak Budgets
Many pundits are predicting that as the US emerges from its worst economic contraction since the Great Depression, business will bounce back with minimal new hires. One of the primary ways that businesses grow their productivity without hiring more employees is to use information technology to automate processes that used to be done by real people. But if the economy is still weak and the organization isn’t growing, that means life actually gets harder for those of us in IT because we’re being asked to deliver great returns to the company without allowing us to hire more people to get … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Professional Development
Free e-Books from O’Reilly
O'Reilly Media has a large collection of pdf book samplers. A complete list is here. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Writing
Video: Interview – Part 5 Common Challenges
Heather Eichman interviews Kevin Kline, the former President of PASS and systems specialist for the SQL Server Business Unit at Quest Software. Posted February 08, 2008. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Challenges, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video
