Kevin provides two new session slide decks and tells about his week presenting sessions in Colorado from August 14-17, 2012.
Two New Slide Decks. Plus, the Week in Colorado.
Filed Under: Administration, Challenges, Cool Technologies, Databases, IO, On-Line Resources, PASS, Presentations, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks, Video Tagged With: Best Practices, CodePlex, DBA, Developer, Leadership, Performance, SQL Server 2012, SQLSaturday, Tools & Scripts, Troubleshooting, Video
SQLMag = SQL Server Pro. Goes all-digital!
I was recently chatting with Megan Keller, my long-time editor for the Tool Time column and Executive Editor at SQL Server Pro, DevProConnections, and SharePoint Pro.
Filed Under: Databases, On-Line Resources, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tool Time Tagged With: DBA, Developer, SQL Server 2012, SQLMag, Tools & Scripts
New on SQLMag Tool Time Blog – Update to FineBuild
Read about the latest update to FineBuild for SQL Server, a tool with speeds installation and configuration of SQL Server and associated utilities and programs.
Filed Under: Administration, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks, Tool Time Tagged With: CodePlex, DBA, SQLMag, Tools, Tools & Scripts
Blogger, Have You Heard of Microsoft Broadcaster?
Microsoft unleashes a torrent of free technical content which you can use in your blogs or user group site to drive deeper engagement with your audience and community.
Filed Under: Cool Technologies, On-Line Resources, Web2.0 Tagged With: Career, Tools & Scripts, Video, Writing
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.
Filed Under: Administration, Challenges, Databases, On-Line Resources, Performance, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks, Tool Time, Transact-SQL Programming, Virtualization Tagged With: cloud computing, DBA, Developer, MS-Access, MySQL, Oracle, PHP, SQL Azure, SQL Server 2008 R2, Sybase, Tools, Tools & Scripts, Transact-SQL Programming
New on SQLMag.Com: Update to SP_WHOISACTIVE
I profiled Adam Machanic’s excellent stored procedure, SP_WHOISACTIVE, back in August of 2010
Filed Under: SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tool Time Tagged With: DBA, Internals, Monitoring, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQLMag, Tools, Tools & Scripts
Database Maintenance Scripting Done Right
why write your own when you can download a prewritten preventative maintenance script for SQL Server?
Filed Under: Administration, Challenges, Databases, On-Line Resources, Performance, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tool Time Tagged With: Best Practices, DBA, Performance, SQL Server 2008 R2, Tools & Scripts
What’s Up With Discovery Wizard for SQL Server?
Disco is a free tool for DBAs and developers that enables you to discover and inventory almost all extant versions and editions of Microsoft SQL Server
Filed Under: Challenges, SQL Server, Tips & Tricks, Tool Time Tagged With: DBA, Quest Software, Tools, Tools & Scripts
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
