All the preaching I've been doing lately about starting a blog, publicizing it, and building your resume online has resonated with you. I've got four new syndicated bloggers on deck today - we're up to 63 syndicated bloggers, something I never could have imagined when we started syndicating blogs at SQLServerPedia. I'm really proud ...
Meet SQLServerPedia's newest syndicated blogger, Chad Miller (Blog - @CMille19). Chad has worked with SQL Server since 1999, and using PowerShell since 2007. He leads the Codeplex projects for SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) and PoshRSS, speaks at SQLSaturdays and CodeCamps, and even ...
As Editor-in-Chief at SQLServerPedia, one of my jobs is to check out what other wikis are doing, see how it's working for them, and steal their ideas apply their knowledge. We used to try nominating an Article of the Month every month, but frankly, that just wasn't working. People told me they ...
Most DBAs don't read blogs. They have "real jobs" that don't afford them the time to surf the web, improve their training, or meet like-minded SQL Server professionals who want to help. When I talk to them about the power of the community and all this free help that's available, they're often completely surprised. I think ...
Sankar Reddy (Blog - Twitter) put a ton of work into SQLServerPedia over the last couple of months, banging out some great wiki articles: Getting the Last Clean DBCC CHECKDB Date Tracking Password Changes Server Audit Examples A group of SQL Server DBAs and bloggers voted the DBCC CHECKDB date article as the ...
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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