Chad Miller put out a new SQL Server PowerPack for Quest's free PowerShell tool, PowerGUI, which got me to thinking - I wonder if there's been more PowerShell adoption lately? [poll id="2"] And because the results can get skewed by job description: [poll id="3"] Thanks for taking the time to answer! Your feedback is a giant wooden ...
In my SQL Server CMDB webcast this week, I ran a poll: how many of the ~100 attendees had worked with PowerShell? No, but plan to - 40% No, and don't plan to - 40% Yes, for 0-6 months - 10% Yes, for 6 months or more - 10% I'm rounding those percentages. The short story was that 4 ...
On Wednesday night at 8:30 PM CST, I'll be appearing on the live Mind of Root show with Steve Murawski: We will have Brent Ozar, SQL Server Expert for Quest Software, joining us to talk about becoming a DBA (Database Administrator), a sysadmin’s guide to working with DBA’s, and tips for sysadmins who have become ...
A few months back, Microsoft gave MVPs a few MSDN Ultimate subscriptions to pass on to community members, no strings attached. I quietly gave mine to a few deserving folks who I thought could be future MVPs, but Arnie Rowland (Blog – @ArnieRowland) had a better idea. Arnie’s Project Phoenix encourages developers to propose a [...]
Read More »A few months ago, I had The Idea. I wanted to conduct SQL Server training on a cruise ship. I emailed a few buddies and offered to start a company called SQLCruise with them, and out of three friends, only one could say yes. I don’t have anything against the two who said no. I [...]
Read More »Most SQL Server DBAs don’t even like MySQL, let alone NoSQL. They cringe when they hear people say things like, “I don’t need transactions” or “The data will eventually be consistent” or “Indexes will be supported in the next version.” SQL Server and Oracle people are constantly trying to out-feature each other, and the abject [...]
Read More »In August 2008, Lady Gaga released her premier album The Fame. This 13-track work produced several hit singles including Just Dance, Poker Face, and Paparazzi – but it also produced plenty of controversy. Her exaggerated use of fashion, musical cliches, and sex gave her plenty of media attention – both good and bad. If you’ve [...]
Read More »Pop quiz: should you be worried if your SQL Server’s page life expectancy is averaging 214? There’s only one correct answer: it depends.
Performance tuning is all about finding the RIGHT bottleneck, focusing on it, and fixing it to the application owner’s satisfaction. Learn what happens if you don’t do it right.
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