Even if you have been working in the database industry for a long time, there is a good chance that you have never heard of notebooks. Meanwhile, your colleagues down the hall in the data science or business intelligence department may have been enjoying the powerful utility of notebooks their entire multi-decade career. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

The big cloud vendors tout many reasons for running IT infrastructure in the cloud. A very prominent benefit is “accelerated innovation and delivery.” That’s a powerful selling point because every IT manager I have ever known wants to deliver better results, faster, and at lower cost. However, it seems that the less IT managers know about doing actual hands-on IT work, the more demanding they are. They just don’t grasp how hard these projects can be. Conversely, my experience has taught me that most IT managers who came up through the ranks as software developers, system administrators, and … [Read more...]

In this blog post, Kevin Kline answers questions from our webinar “Consolidating Your SQL Server Environment to the Cloud.” Click HERE to read more. … [Read more...]

Continuous learning is essential to keeping up with new and changing technologies that will impact all businesses and data professionals’ jobs in the coming years. During our free webinar, The Top 4 Data Technology Trends Every DBA Should Know About in 2019, I was part of a panel of data technology experts, including dbatools.io Creator Chrissy LeMaire (@cl), Sabin.io DevOps Data Engineer Mark Allison (@dataguzzle), and Heraflux Technologies Founder David Klee (@kleegeek), who discussed the following four data technology trends: DevOps for databasesCloud computing, administrated by … [Read more...]

In this blog post, we answer questions from our webinar “Consolidating Your SQL Server Environment On-Premises.” Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Webinar Recap Maybe you are an accidental DBA who has recently been assigned responsibility for the SQL Server, on-premises or in the cloud. Maybe you are a generalist who can keep the SQL Server up and running, but don’t know much about how it works. Or maybe you are just starting in your career and want to learn more. Whatever situation applies to you, there are a handful of very important lessons you will have to learn if you administrate a SQL Server. I recently teamed up with Denny Cherry (@mrdenny), of Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC, @dcacco), for a … [Read more...]

In this webinar recap, Kevin Kline shares the Q&A portion of the SentryOne webinar: Top 5 SQL Server Challenges Automated with PowerShell. Click HERE to read more. … [Read more...]

Kevin Kline shares more about the history of PASS and the assembling of the original board of directors. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

With Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SentryOne, migrate to Azure with confidence and receive breakthrough cloud analytics performance at the best price. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

A Historical Account of the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS), Part 1: Foundation from Kevin Kline. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]