An expert roundtable discussion hosted by SQL Server Expert Kevin Kline and featuring speakers from Microsoft, EMC, Avanade, HP and Quest Software. With the release of SQL Server 2005 and its focus on Business Intelligence, SQL Server professionals are faced with unprecedented amounts of data to manage. How are you dealing with the flood of data? At the PASS Community Summit 2006, experts from Quest Software joined forces with a variety of other SQL Server industry experts for a panel discussion around the implications of managing large volumes of business critical data on SQL Server and … [Read more...]
Video: The Growing SQL Server World- Surviving the Data Avalanche
Filed Under: Administration, BigData, Challenges, Conferences, Databases, Performance, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, Video Tagged With: DBA, SQL Server 2005, SQLPASS
Plays Well With Others – Hiring, Part 2
Interview Styles and Samples There are three basic interview styles you can use when interview technologists: biographical, technical, or behavioral. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Because of this mix of pros and cons, some organizations will mix two or more of the styles, or allow different people in the organization to serially interview the candidate using different styles. We’ll cover each of these styles in a bit more detail and provide some examples of interview questions that you might use with them. BIOGRAPHICAL The biographical interview style offers the advantage of … [Read more...]
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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. Posted August 27, 2008. … [Read more...]
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Plays Well With Others – Hiring, Part 1
Pre-Interview Preparation As I promised in the last post , I’ll be covering hiring in greater detail over the next three installments. Today, I’m going to talk about what goes into effective hiring before the interview ever takes place. Future installments will cover the various interview styles you can choose from in some detail, to be followed by another installment on what sort of team involvement and interview format you choose. The Ideal Candidate Hiring, training, and acclimating a new person to your organization is estimated to cost anywhere from 17-32% of the position’s … [Read more...]
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The State of the Internet Operating System
Tim O'Reilly has written a two part post on his thoughts on the internet operating system. If you're not familiar with Tim, you should be. Part one is here. Part two is here. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud, Cool Technologies, Interviews, Opinion, Presentations, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends, Video, Virtualization Tagged With: news analysis, Video, Web Development
Video: First Video Blog
This is Kevin Kline's first video blog post on www.SQLServerPedia.com Posted August 04, 2008. … [Read more...]
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DBTA: The Future of Coding for SQL Server, Part 2
In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology introduced by Microsoft in late 2008. LINQ to SQL promised to make developers' lives much easier by allowing them to focus on writing programs in their favorite Visual Studio language and letting LINQ to SQL write all the Transact-SQL code. The problem is that LINQ to SQL writes very bad Transact-SQL code. [READ MORE] … [Read more...]
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Plays Well With Others – A Primer on Hiring
Good hiring practices are vital for any organization. As you move up in ranks, you’ll be given more influence and authority in hiring situations. Unfortunately, most organizations offer no training on how to effectively hire the best candidate nor do they have a formalized policy on how to conduct hiring. The larger your organization, the more likely it is to have a formalized hiring process and well-defined roles for HR and for the hiring manager. Even when the HR department (if it exists) is helpful and has good intentions, they often bring little to the hiring process except to weed out … [Read more...]
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#passvotes Tweaks and Data Geeks: PASS Election 2011
Cross posted from Stuart Ainsworth’s codegumbo. Obviously, the angst over the 2010 PASS elections still lives on for some, and some of you are probably ready to move on to more immediate concerns, but as for me, I’m stuck here trying to figure out what I should learn from all of this. I do think we as a community need to move forward, and to that end, I’ve agreed to participate in Kevin Kline’s series on the PASS elections process, and answer the following question: “Many in the community seem to think that the PASS election process is badly broken. Do you think that PASS needs to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Governance, Memes, Opinion, PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Guest Post, SQLPASS
A PASSionate Community
Cross posted from Joe Webb's blog. Much has been voiced about the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Nominating Committee’s decision to not put Steve Jones (blog, twitter) on the ballot for this year’s Board of Directors election. I’ve watched this controversy unfold with great interest, biting my tongue to keep from making rash or reactionary comments one way or the other. I’m currently working on a guest blog post for a series that Kevin Kline (blog, twitter) is starting on the election process. In the coming days my guest post will appear on my site and on Kevin’s … [Read more...]
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