Each month, for six months, Arnie Rowland will be giving away a package of software, books, training, and development tools, valued at over $15,000, to an unemployed or underemployed developer that takes on a software project of his/her choice with a non-profit. "The idea is to provide the recipient access to all of the tools needed to improve his/her skills, an opportunity to gain practical experience, the potential to earn a recommendation and/or referral –and to positively contribute to society as a form of 'give-back'. No free lunch, just sweat equity –the kind that makes us all feel … [Read more...]
Free Software for Unemployed Developers
Filed Under: Ethics, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Virtualization Tagged With: Developer, MVP, Training
Video: Quest Software Set to Be SQL Server “Rock Star” at PASS 2007
Watch a full interview with Kevin Kline, president of PASS and technical strategy manager, SQL Server, Quest Software as he discusses the evolution of SQL Server. Posted September 17, 2007. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Interviews, PASS, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Quest Software, SQLPASS, Video
Video: Interview – Part 4 SQL Server Community
My Vlog- Heather Eichman interviews Kevin Kline, the former President of PASS and systems specialist for the SQL Server Business Unit at Quest Software. Posted February 04, 2008. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Interviews, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Video
Join O’Reilly on Facebook
O'Reilly Media on Facebook is a place for for anyone who is a fan of O'Reilly, whether you've been following their books, conferences, webcasts, and more since the very beginning or you recently jumped onto the bandwagon. I really enjoy the newsletters and blogs from O'Reilly's various channels, especially Tim O'Reilly's commentary. And, of course, there's my book - SQL in a Nutshell - published by O'Reilly for your consideration. This book provides a complete reference of the latest release of the ANSI SQL standard, as well as full coverage of support for the ANSI standard from the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: ANSI SQL, DBA, Developer, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server 2008, Transact-SQL Programming
Video: Worth Upgrading to SQL Server 2005
Why companies should upgrade their databases to SQL Server 2005. Please forgive posting this old video. Many of the tips are still worth paying attention to since SQL Server 2005 features and technologies are the foundation of subsequent releases. Posted December 19, 2006. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Presentations, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: DBA, Developer, SQL Server 2005
Google Wave is Dead. Long Live the Wave!
While enduring an endless series of flight delays and disgruntled passengers in the Baltimore airport that was my own personal travel hell on the evening of Thursday, August 5th, I came across this interesting and important article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/google-kills-wave-its-collaboration-tool/?ref=technology Even if you don't read the article, you can see from the URL that Google has decided to put an end to the collaboration experiment known as Wave. Wave will be available through the end of the year and most of its major components are now available as open … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cool Technologies, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: cloud computing, Google, Google Wave, news analysis, Web Development
Video: Influence and Authority
In today's podcast, Kevin Kline talks about the difference between influence and authority, and why IT professionals need to work on their influence to succeed. You can view this video in higher quality or your favorite portable formats at: http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/profes... Posted December 24, 2008. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Professional Development, Video
Presentation: SQL Server for Oracle DBAs
Back in late May, my pal Buck Woody (blog | twitter) and I presented SQL Server for the Oracle DBA. Buck played Jerry Lewis' role, while I played the straight man a la Dean Martin. You can see the recording and slide deck here. Since both Buck and I spent a considerable number of years working on Oracle, we felt like we had pretty good legs to stand on doing this presentation. Here's the abstract: In enterprise IT, database professionals face a mixed-bag of platforms within their environments -- and the overlapping duties that go along with them. Whether you like it or not, you get … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Administration, Databases, On-Line Resources, Presentations, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: DBA, Oracle, Quest Software, Training
Briefly: Significant Personnel Moves Inside of Microsoft Azure
Briefly: Dream Team Forms Around Azure If you're wondering whether to hedge your long-term bets on cloud computing, this should help you solidify your thinking. Microsoft has been building a dream team for Azure, including the patriarch of Windows (and father of Windows NT) Dave Cutler. Tweets from several Microsofties reveal that another revered technologist, Mark Russinovich of SysInternals fame has also joined the team. When almost all of the heavy hitters in a company like Microsoft go to work on a single exciting new technology, you can easily tell which direction the wind is … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cool Technologies, NoSQL, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends, Web2.0 Tagged With: Azure, cloud computing
Video: Disk Tuning and Optimization for SQL Server
This video focuses on accelerated Disk Optimization and improved productivity with SQL Query Tuning. Video created Dec. 18, 2006. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: IO, Performance, Presentations, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: DBA, SQL Server 2005
