The winners were named last week in our contest for bloggers on SQLServerPedia. Lots of great bloggers and great articles for you to read. A complete list of the winners is here: Thanks to the thousands who participated! Follow me on Twitter! … [Read more...]
And the Winners are…
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: DBA, Developer, DMV, Internals, Professional Development, Quest Software, Tools & Scripts
Video: Worth the Wait Why SQL Server 2008 is Great
Join Kevin Kline, SQL Server MVP and SQL Server Technology Strategist for Quest Software and Brent Ozar, SQL Server Domain Expert for Quest Software as they introduce the top ten features and capabilities in SQL Server 2008 that they find to be the most exciting and valuable. Originally Posted on YoutTube November 12, 2008. Follow me on Twitter! … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Administration, Databases, Presentations, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: DBA, Developer, Quest Software, SQL Server 2008
Plays Well With Others – More Thoughts on the Job Search
While searching for a job, the interview is your opportunity to showcase your talents and the strengths that you bring to an organization. But I have a few more random thoughts about conducting your job search that I thought were worth mentioning. The Personal Touch The first thought is a quick one. In our high-speed technology driven world, a personal touch still makes a difference. So be sure to send a thank you e-mail after concluding an interview, assuming you liked the company and the opportunity. There was a time when a hand-written thank you note was the appropriate response. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Professional Development
DBTA: What’s the Fuss about Data Deduplication?
Listen to a group of database professionals talk for awhile and someone will eventually bring up the topic of data deduplication. Data deduplication is a means to eliminate redundant data, either through hardware or software technologies. To illustrate, imagine you've drafted a new project plan and sent it to five teammates asking for input. That single file has now been reproduced, in identical bits and bytes, on a total of six computers. If everyone's email inbox is backed up every night, that's another six copies backed up on the email backup server. Through data deduplication … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Administration, BigData, Challenges, DBTA, Hardware, IO, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: DBA, DBTA, High Availability, Internals, Performance, SQL Server 2008 R2
My Biotronics pacemaker keeps my heart rhythm healthy, so I set it to Bassa Nova. … [Read more...]
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Plays Well With Others – Influence versus Authority
You’ve probably found that the prefix “lead” is a fairly common occurrence in the technology world. We have “lead developers”, “lead DBAs”, “lead architects”, and “lead consultants”. Yet, we don’t have “lead managers”, “lead directors”, or “lead VPs”. Why is that? Well, there are probably a number of different reasons for having “lead” technologist titles depending on who you ask. For example, the HR department might say that adding “lead” to a technologist’s title justifies the better salary that the company had to pay to acquire that specific talent. The IT department chiefs might … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development
...And what the heck is a "low-friction API"? I haven't heard too many developers complain about chafing. sqlpass … [Read more...]
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TN Summit 2010 – Surviving the Data Avalanche
Here's the link to my revamped presentation on Surviving the Data Avalanche The Abstract for this presentation is here. The slides for this presentation are here. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: BigData, Challenges, Databases, IO, Performance, Presentations, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, Trends, Video Tagged With: Best Practices, DBA, Internals, Performance, SQL Server 2008 R2, Video
DBTA: Security as an Afterthought
If you've read the IT press at all these days, you know that SQL Injection (SI) attacks are very common and can be devastatingly effective. In fact, SI attacks-equally easy to execute against Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2, or Microsoft SQL Server-are among the most common hacks on the Internet today. If a web application runs a relational database on the backend, it can be subject to an SI attack, which ironically, is among the easiest web hacks to prevent. [READ MORE] … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Administration, DBTA, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: DBA, DBTA, Security
Plays Well With Others – Metrics to the Max!
November 2009 would have been the 100th birthday of famed management guru, Peter Drucker, were he alive today. Now for those of you who don’t know the name, Peter Drucker was no mere guru or simple pundit. He was in fact the father of management and universally acclaimed as the world’s greatest management thinker. Anyone who’s taken a business class, studied for an MBA, or had to deal with an IT project to build a management dashboard has been touched by Peter Drucker. If you have a spare moment, add Drucker’s Concept of the Corporation to your library. Drucker came upon the scene at a … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Challenges, Governance, On-Line Resources, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies Tagged With: Best Practices, Career, Management, Professional Development
