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Webcast: Painless Schema Upgrades (and Downgrades)

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 [...]

SQL Server 2008 upgrade poll results & thoughts

Last week I posted a poll asking DBAs when they would use SQL Server 2008 in production.  Here’s the results after one week:

In the next 3-6 months. (40%, 8 Votes)
Not planning it yet. (30%, 6 Votes)
In the next month or two. (20%, 4 Votes)
Already done. (10%, 2 Votes)

This week, I had the pleasure of going [...]