Let’s Talk Licensing and Virtualization for SQL Server

Kevin details many new developments with SQL Server virtualization and licensing.

PASS Summit 2012, Slide Decks

Get the latest slide decks from Kevin Kline’s presentations at the PASS Summit 2012 conference.

Conquer Your Fear of Virtualization with a Free Day of Training at PASS!

Get tons of free training from House of Brick, one of the USA’s top database and virtualization consultancies, at the 2012 PASS Summit!

The Expert’s Conference (TEC) – For AD, SharePoint, Exchange, PowerShell and Other Admins

Want advanced 400-level training on Microsoft Directory & Identity (including Active Directory), Exchange Server, SharePoint, Virtualization (Microsoft Hyper-V) & Workspace Management, and PowerShell Deep Dives?

New on “Database Trends & Applications”

In last month’s column, “2012 Might Really Be the End of the World as We Know It,” I described a number of major developments in the IT industry that are likely to disrupt the life of database professionals everywhere

Microsoft Document Watch for Operational Excellence

Four new and useful resources for managing your It organization from Microsoft.

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.

SQL Server Migration Roll-Up

Here are a hand full of cool database migration tools and white papers worth mentioning for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Sybase.

Video: Clock drift and virtualization

Watch Kevin discuss what clock drift is and how it occurs in a virtualized environment and how to avoid this issue.

The State of the Internet Operating System

Link to two part article by Tim O’Reilly.