Introducing the Microsoft Broadcaster: A self-service technical content repository that provides you with rich content for your blogs/sites. On behalf of Microsoft, I would like to invite you to dive into Microsoft Broadcaster. It's a site that unleashes a torrent of free technical content like Videos, Webcasts, Whitepapers, eLearning, and more, which you can use in your blogs or user group site to drive deeper engagement with your audience and community. Key Features of Microsoft Broadcaster include: Download and embed content on your sites without sending traffic away … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Quest Named to the SD Times 100 List
August 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
My employer, Quest Software, was once again named to the SD Times 100 list, this year in the “database and integration” category! The program recognizes the top leaders and innovators, looking back at each company’s achievements from the year before. Out unwavering market leadership was also reinforced in 2010 with IDC ranking Quest as “the top independent database management and development tools vendor serving distributed and other non-mainframe systems”· Other innovations contributed to our win, such: Ongoing innovation within the Toad product family, including the introduction of … [Read more...]
Managing Complex DB Environments
August 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Check out the new white paper “Key Methods for Managing Complex DB Environments” at Quest.com. Heterogeneous database management hassles used to be much less common than today. When I first started at Quest nearly ten years ago, I'd put forward that on 15-20% of my big customers regularly managed more than one major database platform. (That doesn't mean they didn't have more than one, rather secondary platforms were either unmanaged or considered entirely unimportant). Today, I'd put forward that 70-80% of my big customers support at least two major database platforms. Often, they support … [Read more...]
August 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
New Political Rule: If we ever face budget default, Congress & staffers should not get paid until the issue is resolve. http://ping.fm/mn0zu … [Read more...]
July 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Surgery recovery is going ok. But why do I have Montgomery Burns' head grafted on to my shoulder? … [Read more...]
You… must… see… Rock City! Aaaagh….
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
And his final words were... [refer to title]. … [Read more...]
Quietly, in the night, a fort is built
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The girls love building forts. The only problem is that they use anything and everything close at hand.So, we awoke one morning to find that they'd built a fort out of furniture and the blankets we keep on the couch. And, on top of that, they spent the night in the fort.Too cute! … [Read more...]
