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What I learned at Tulsa Tech Fest 2008

Tulsa Tech Fest is a ginormous cross-discipline tech event that drew over 800 people to two days of fun sessions at OSU-Tulsa.  I learned so much from so many different people that I can’t even begin to lay it all out, but I’m going to throw in the highlights here.
Tulsa developers “get” social media. During [...]

How To Write a SQL Server Performance Review

Sometimes I think the difference between consultants and employees boils down to one thing: documentation.
Us DBAs know exactly what we think is wrong with an application, and we’ll tell anybody who’ll listen, but what does management do?  They hire some expensive consultants to come in, ask a lot of questions, and tell us what we [...]

Upcoming SQL Server meetings & presentations

I’ve got a few upcoming presentations at user groups and meetings:
August 13 - West Michigan SQL User Group - SQL Server Consolidation: Your datacenter is overcrowded and overheated. Your manager is breathing down your neck to cut costs. The Wintel admins want to virtualize your servers. Consolidation might be the answer to a lot of [...]