How Do You SKU?

March 25, 2011 by 3 Comments

Kevin Kline poses questions regarding Developer, Standard, and Enterprise licenses.

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How Much Data is a Lot of Data?

March 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment

It’s always interesting to see the guestimations of the big brains about figures and facts that are hard to verify. Here’s an example – how much data is computerized today?

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Innovation and Invention: Whose Method Is Best?

March 22, 2011 by 1 Comment

There are a lot of reasons why I love The Economist magazine and pay over $100 per year for a subscription.

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Wednesday Quest: Power GUI Integration

March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Excellent tools for PowerShell scripting

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Wednesday Quest: Exciting New Community for Users of Toad for SQL Server

March 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment

There’s a great, new community dedicated to all the users of Toad for SQL Server…

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Wednesday Quest: New Product Training and Documentation

March 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment

One of my favorite tools in the Quest Software toolbox for SQL Server (and Oracle) DBAs is called Foglight Performance Analysis, or more commonly, PA. This product can do things that no other tool or amount of customized scripts can ever reproduce…

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Integrating Workload Replays into Database Change Management

March 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

…if you don’t have quantitative evidence of what normal performance is for your database, how can you know what is abnormal?

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