Posts by Jeremiah Peschka

Managing change is part of a DBA’s job. If you aren’t managing database changes effectively, though, disaster can strike. Jeremiah Peschka has worked with good and bad change management practices and even brought some awful ones under control. In this session, he introduces you to tools, tips, and techniques that will help you effectively handle…

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SQL Server 2012 in AWS - It's like a cupcake kebob... but nerdier I really hate waiting for software to download. It’s a first world problem and I’m an impatient guy. Thankfully, you don’t have to wait through the hour long download of a SQL Server 2012 CTP3 ISO, Windows installation, and SQL Server installation…

What’s a post about the DotNetRocks podcast doing over here? Turns out that I recorded a podcast! You can check it out on September 27th (that’s in just a few days). So what the devil did I talk about? It turns out that there’s some interested in the .NET library for Riak that I’ve been…

Corrugated Iron, the C# library to working with Riak, isn’t terribly old – OJ and I released the first version two and a half weeks ago. In the mean time, we’ve fixed a few bugs but haven’t pushed out major enhancements. The minor changes that we’ve pushed out, though, have been in direct response to…

I spent the week of July 25th in the Oregon Convention Center. No, it wasn’t a secret SQL Server event; I was at OSCON. OSCON is the Open Source Convention hosted by O’Reilly (you may know them as the publisher with animals on most of their books). The best part is that I wasn’t just…

I like to share what I know. That’s why earlier this year, I contributed some code to the Riak function contrib. Since then, I’ve been quietly becoming an independent consultant, starting a business, and working on a big chunk of code. I’m proud to release to the world CorrugatedIron. More NoSQL for .NET If you’ve…

There’s a double dose of free training coming your way on Tuesday, July 19th! Completely Legal Performance Enhancements At 11:30 AM Central I’ll be hitting the intertubes and talking about Completely Legal Performance Enhancements. You’ll want to attend this talk if you know you have a performance problem but don’t know where to start. In…

Let’s face it, there are a lot of cool new things you could be learning right now. It seems like there’s a new technology coming out every 12.8 seconds. Why the hell would you want to spend your free time learning a crufty old language like SQL? My reasons, let me show you them. It’s…