Heather Eichman interviews Kevin Kline, the former President of PASS and systems specialist for the SQL Server Business Unit at Quest Software.
Video: Interview – Part 1: Quest Software
Filed Under: Conferences, Interviews, PASS, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Career, Video, WorldView
What’s Your Data Management and Retention Policy? [DBTA]
If managing your corporate data for the long term isn’t currently on your mind, it should be!
Filed Under: Databases, DBTA, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: Backup & Recovery, Best Practices, DBA, DBTA, SQL Server 2008 R2
Efficiency and Effectiveness at Work [Video]
How can we be both efficient and effective in our day to day life and career – aimed at the SQL Server professional, but good for anyone.
Filed Under: Challenges, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Career, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development, Video
DBTA: Growing Like Weeds – Explosive SQL Server Grassroots Growth
Filed Under: Conferences, DBTA, Opinion, PASS, Professional Development, SQL Server, Trends Tagged With: DBA, Developer, Training
Video: Ensure Optimal Performance When Deploying SQL Server 2005
Kevin Kline will offer insight into best practices for SQL Server 2005 set up, configuration and queries. He will also discuss tuning for both the server and hardware to help an application perform better after it is deployed. This presentation will offer a better understanding of several SQL Server performance related areas including:
* Hardware design
* SQL Server configuration settings
* Database configuration settings
* Application design
* SQL Tuning
Filed Under: Databases, IO, On-Line Resources, Performance, Presentations, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Best Practices, DBA, Developer, DMV, Internals, Monitoring, Performance, SQL Server 2005, Tools & Scripts
DBTA: The NoSQL Movement- Hype or Hope?
In a nutshell, NoSQL databases (also called post-relational databases) are a variety of loosely grouped means of storing data without requiring the SQL language.
Filed Under: Challenges, Cloud, Databases, DBTA, NoSQL, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: Azure, cloud computing, DBA, DBTA, Developer, FutureWatch, news analysis, Web Development
Plays Well With Others – Can Integrity Be Learned?
Is integrity a characteristic that you are born with or can it be developed intentionally?
Filed Under: Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Professional Development
Video: Data Modeling in the SQL Server Space
Join SQL Server MVP and President of PASS, Kevin Kline as he:
* Identifies the issues that can arise from relying only on modeling tools
* Discusses the 10 most common modeling issues you will face when transforming data models from logical (conceptual) to physical
* Describes how to correctly identify and resolve serious problems
* Provides best practices to resolve issues
Filed Under: Challenges, Databases, Presentations, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tool Time, Video Tagged With: Data Modeling, Database Architect, Database Design, DBA, Normalization, Tools, Video
DBTA: Forecasting SQL Server in 2010
…IT leaders see signs of improving prospects. What does that bode for SQL Server in 2010?
Filed Under: Challenges, Cloud, Databases, DBTA, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: Azure, DBA, DBTA, Developer, news analysis, SQL Server 2008 R2
Paying It Forward With Project Phoenix
It seems like I’ve known Arnie Rowland (blog | twitter) since the dawn of time. But it’s really more like the last several years, or at least since Arnie achieved Microsoft MVP status, that I really got to know him. Arnie has also been trying to get me to speak to the user group he [...]
Filed Under: Ethics, Interviews, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: DBA, Developer, Society
