Comments on: MCM Prep Week: Microsoft Exams 70-433 and 70-451

By: David Vaughan

David Vaughan — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:34:24 +0000

Right on the mark! Large, fast, scalable databases are those which force as much crunching to the middle tier as possible. XML indeed! Who the hell is storing data as xml? I want the contract to optimize their POS.

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:09:36 +0000

Reyam – you can buy plenty of them through Amazon.com and get them delivered immediately through the Kindle app. You can read those on your PC or handheld, too.

By: reyam

reyam — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:36:05 +0000

Do you have any e-books that I can use while preparing for my 70-451 exam? Thanks!!

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:58:16 +0000

Geoff – no, I haven’t changed my mind on these at all. I’ve changed my mind about specific features – for example, I really like Service Broker – but the flip side is that I just don’t see this stuff in production often enough to consider syntax memorization to be part of a basic DBA certification. (Wow, that was a run-on sentence.) DBAs might deploy new XML datamodels once every 6 months, max – why force them all to memorize BS syntax for it?