On Thursday, I’m doing a Quest Pain of the Week webcast with Michael Lato, SQLServerPedia’s T-SQL Coding Techniques Editor, to talk about handling application upgrades. When your developers and your third party vendors come to you with new apps that need database changes, you need to make sure their changes get applied smoothly, verify that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘litespeed’
Webcast - What’s New in LiteSpeed 5.0
I try not to do much marketing stuff on my personal blog, but when we do user group meetings, DBAs seem to be really interested in this particular topic. If you’re interested, here’s a webcast on What’s New in LiteSpeed 5.0.
LiteSpeed v5.0 is out!
Presto chango, version five.
This one was in the oven long before I arrived at Quest back in May, and I’ve been using it for the last couple of months. Some of the big improvements are the ability to query backup files just like databases, the Backup Analyzer that automatically tests a bunch of compression & [...]
Quest LiteSpeed isn’t for everybody
Sean McCown at Infoworld wrote a blog post today that said some negative things about Quest and LiteSpeed, and I had to respond. He’s switched away from using LiteSpeed, and he had an interesting set of reasons.
“I just don’t need the centralized repository in my lab, and I do enough demos that having native [...]
