Cross-Country Roadshows in the Nordics This Week! Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Will the DBA disappear? No, far from it. But specific skills needed by DBAs and certain job roles fulfilled by DBAs will certainly change as we move to the cloud. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

If you haven't been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called "containers." While there are many specific software programs, by far the most prominent is Docker. So, from here on out, consider "Docker" and "container" to be synonymous. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It's always a fun time, with lots of socializing in the halls of the conference center and at the various restaurants and gathering places around town. The training was also top-notch this year with more than 16 tracks of sessions going on from early morning until evening—literally hundreds of SQL Server developer, DBA, architect, BI, and data science session. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

In his inaugural SentryOne Community Omnibus post, Kevin Kline shares the latest SentryOne webinars, resources, blogs, and press releases. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

The 2018 Microsoft Ignite conference was overflowing with attendees this year, as user enthusiasm continues to grow with the advent of CEO Satya Nadella. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Kevin Kline shares highlights from the PASS Summit 2018 keynote with Raghu Ramakrishnan. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Kevin Kline shares highlights from Rohan Kumar's PASS Summit 2018 keynote, "SQL Server and Azure Data Services: Harness the future with the ultimate hybrid platform for data and AI." Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Learn about this HUGE opportunity to influence the Microsoft Data Platform products and services you use daily while attending the PASS Summit! Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

On August 30, 2018 Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What's an "online migration"? Online migration means that your databases remain operational while conducting the migration. This provides quite a few obvious benefits. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]