Hear about the latest announcements at the PASS Business Analytics Conference and from the renown keynote speaker and author of “Freakonomics”, Dr. Steven Levitt.
PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) Recap
Filed Under: Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Conferences, Databases, On-Line Resources, PASS, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, DBA, Developer, SQL Server 2012
Let’s Talk Licensing and Virtualization for SQL Server
Filed Under: Administration, Architecture, Cool Technologies, Databases, DBTA, On-Line Resources, Performance, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends, Virtualization Tagged With: Best Practices, DBA, DBTA, Developer, Internals, Licensing, Monitoring, SQL Server 2012, SQLMag, SQLPASS, Virtualization, VMware
Women in Technology: A Quick Observation and a Quick Straw Poll
Kevin shares some observations and seeks your opinion about where women in technology encounter their first impediments to career growth.
Filed Under: Challenges, Conferences, Ethics, Opinion, PASS, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: WIT
Managing Complex DB Environments
Let’s address methods for successfully managing today’s complex heterogeneous database infrastructures.
Filed Under: Administration, Challenges, Databases, SQL Server, Tips & Tricks, Trends Tagged With: DB2, DBA, Oracle, SQL Server 2008 R2, Sybase
Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali
In this podcast, host Richard Campbell asks Kevin Kline about what topics are of particular interest at Tech-Ed 2011, focusing the discussion on cloud and SQL Server “Denali”
Filed Under: Databases, Interviews, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: cloud computing, Denali, FutureWatch
What I’m Reading, July 22 2011
Kevin shares articles on BigData, Federal government IT and cloud computing, Microsoft research into data analytics and BigData, hashtags in social media, and max degrees of parallelism.
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?
Filed Under: Databases, NoSQL, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: cloud computing, DBTA, FutureWatch
Adventures in the Land of CloudDB/NoSQL/NoAcid
Filed Under: BigData, Cloud, Conferences, Cool Technologies, Databases, NoSQL, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: Hadoop, news analysis, NoSQL, Oracle, Quest Software
DBTA: Compliance – A Key Element of a Data Management Strategy
Compliance is one of the most interesting elements of any data management plan – it’s a microcosm of evolution in action. When many of the laws that impacted data retention were first enacted, business wasn’t collecting a lot of information. Now, data collection happens everywhere. And, as citizens have come to realize that more and [...]
Filed Under: DBTA, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: Best Practices, DBTA, SQL Server 2008 R2
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
