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Upcoming free webcasts: SQL and SSDs: A Valentine's Day Love Story and Anatomy of the SQL Server Log File.

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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I shall now copy/paste Jason Massie’s hard work at listing each person’s blog URL and feed, because I have no shame:

The Panel Blogroll

• Brent Ozar (subscribe, twitter)
• Brian Kelly (subscribe, twitter)
• Cristian Lefter (subscribe)
• Andrew Fryer (subscribe)
• Namwar Rizvi (subscribe)
• Denny Cherry (subscribe)
• Chris Shaw (subscribe)
• Pinal Dave (subscribe)

Inside the articles, the links don’t work too well, so you can jump to the three parts from here:

• Part 1: MS SQL beats the “ACID” test for Database Technology in Features, Ease & Cost
• Part 2: Stress, Pet Peeves, Roles and Responsibilities of a SQL Server DBA/Developer
• Part 3: Becoming a SQL Server MVP and other Career Choices

I love reading articles like this because they tell me a lot about the people answering the question.  I got a chuckle out of Pinal Dave’s answer to the question about the differences between production DBAs, development DBAs, and SQL Server Developers.  (Pinal – if you read this, no, we are not all the same, and I’ll buy you a drink at PASS to tell you about some horror stories there.)

More DBA Career Articles

• Moving from Help Desk to DBA – a reader asked how to do it, and I gave a few ways to get started.
• Development DBA or Production DBA? – job duties are different for these two DBA roles.  Developers become one kind of DBA, and network administrators or sysadmins become a different kind.  I explain why.
• Recommended Books for DBAs – the books that should be on your shopping list.
• Ask for a List of Servers – DBA candidates need to ask as many questions as they answer during the interview.
• Are you a Junior or Senior DBA? – Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but I explain how to gauge DBA experience by the size of databases you’ve worked with.
• So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star – Part 1 and Part 2 – wanna know what it takes to have “SQL Server Expert” on your business card?  I explain.
• Becoming a DBA – my list of articles about database administration as a career.

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Upcoming free webcasts: SQL and SSDs: A Valentine's Day Love Story and Anatomy of the SQL Server Log File.

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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“Versions of SQL Server after SQL Server 2005 will incorporate full support for running on a supported guest operating system that is installed on a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machine.”

That means SQL Server 2008 will be fully supported even as a virtual server – but only when it’s running inside Hyper-V. That gives Hyper-V a competitive advantage over VMware ESX.  Even if a company’s admins prefer to use VMware, they still might want to use Windows 2008 virtualization just to get full support when things break.

The interesting part to me is what comes next: hopefully, we’ll get virtualization support for Microsoft Project and Sharepoint running as virtual guests.  Those two have always been thorns in my side.

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Upcoming free webcasts: SQL and SSDs: A Valentine's Day Love Story and Anatomy of the SQL Server Log File.

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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Houston to Memphis to Muskegon to Aliso Viejo to Houston

Next up on the itinerary: a slow drive across the country to Aliso Viejo, California to the Quest offices. I’ve got some meetings there in early August for the LiteSpeed v5 RTM party.

Finally, we’ll drive through Arizona and New Mexico to get back home to Houston.

Shortly after arriving back in Houston, I’ll fly back out to Michigan again, this time to speak at the West Michigan SQL User Group and Detroit SQL User Group.  (If only these meetings would have been two weeks prior, I might have been able to expense this whole thing!  Wouldn’t that be hilarious.)

This whole thing will take between two and a half to four weeks, depending on how we mix it up.  We have a couple of alternate plans in case we want to spend more time in a specific area.

Our only concern: we won’t be able to go to as many cool restaurants since we’ll have Ernie with us.  Ah, well – that’ll keep the road trip budget down, at least.  Speaking of budget, gas prices were enough of a concern to make us take the Honda instead of my beloved Jeep Wrangler.  33mpg versus 15, hmmm, lemme think about that – no.

You can track our progress on BrightKite or on Flickr, and I’ll blog periodically.  I’ll still be working (love ya, AT&T) so I’ll be doing work-related blog entries on here too as usual.

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Upcoming free webcasts: SQL and SSDs: A Valentine's Day Love Story and Anatomy of the SQL Server Log File.

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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