How Do You SKU?

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

How Much Data is a Lot of Data?

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?

Innovation and Invention: Whose Method Is Best?

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

Wednesday Quest: Power GUI Integration

Excellent tools for PowerShell scripting

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

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

Wednesday Quest: New Product Training and Documentation

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…

Integrating Workload Replays into Database Change Management

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