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This morning I had the great honor to be presented with a Patriot Award for supporting the U.S. Army Reserve activities of Sergeant First Class
It’s Cyber Monday today, and now that you’ve finished picking up great deals for your personal life, how about a great deal for your professional
We’ve been doing a huge amount of work this year with Microsoft field offices and customers on upgrades and Azure (especially around Azure Managed Instance) and
You may not know this, but for the last six years I’ve been producing a bi-weekly newsletter for everyone signed up for our mailing list
As we all wind down for the 2016 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’
As we all wind down for the 2015 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’
Last week we joined our wonderful friend (he MC’d our wedding in 2007) Richard Campbell for RunAs Radio show #400, where we jet-laggedly discuss all kinds
It’s hiring time again, as our consulting volume has reached the point where we need more help on our close-knit, expert team! Specifically, we’ve asked
As we all wind down for the 2014 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’
On Friday I made my signature pork ribs for our good friend Bob Ward (along with Kimberly’s truffled cauliflower mash and caramelized broccoli) and I promised
SQL Server 2005 will end Extended Support on 4/12/2016 (see the Support Lifecyle page for details) and the SQL Server Team in Microsoft is conducting
We’ve had a mentoring program here at SQLskills for a few years (the brainchild of Jonathan), where each of us can pick someone who’s attended
As we all wind down for the 2013 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’
We’ve had a mentoring program here at SQLskills for a couple of years (the brainchild of Jonathan), where each of us can pick someone who’s
Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the sudden announcement by Microsoft of the cancelling of the MCM/MCSM (Microsoft Certified Master) program, I kicked off
I’m sure most of you have heard the news now that Microsoft has effectively cancelled the MCM/MCSM/MCA program abruptly, with a cold email sent at
Back in May I started a survey to collect build numbers to see how up-to-date people keep their SQL Server instances and I’ve been putting
Last month I kicked off a survey asking you to run some code to send me data on the size, number of files, and number
As an update to our current round of SQLskills community mentoring (round 4 – see post here), Joe and Erin are now mentoring people they’ve
As a counterpart to my recent survey on what the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production (see the results here), I kicked
We’ve had a mentoring program here at SQLskills for a couple of years (the brainchild of Jonathan), where each of us can pick someone who’s
Last week I kicked off a survey asking what is the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production. Here are the results: I’m
Our New Website Late last year we finally decided to make time to revamp our blogs and website, and move onto WordPress. I really wish we’d
As we approach the 2012 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’ for all your
As you may know, we have a mentoring program here at SQLskills (the brainchild of Jonathan), where each of us can pick someone who's attended
You may have noticed that my blog’s been pretty quiet in June and empty in July. May and June were frenetic travel and work months
Demand dictates that we hire another SQL guru to join our close-knit, expert team! Specifically, we’ve asked well-known SQL expert and MVP Erin Stellato to
Back in November last year I blogged about Jonathan's idea to mentor someone who's attended one of our classes and how Jonathan, Joe, and I
I love getting questions in email about SQL Server. I tell every class that they can send me questions and they'll get a response –
Yes, really. So what? Several times in the last week I've heard of people denigrating anyone who is still running SQL Server 2000 (paraphrasing): How
(This essay appeared in our latest SQLskills Insider newsletter over the weekend and generated such a lot of discussion that I thought I’d share it with all
Jonathan Kehayias is such a nice guy. After our recent perf tuning Immersion Event in Chicago last month he had an idea for each of
Days like this don’t come around very often for us here at SQLskills.com – we’re expanding again! It’s been seven months since Jonathan Kehayias came
Cue spooky music… I used to love the X-Files, where one of the catch-phrases was Trust No One. Their other major catch-phrase was The Truth
A couple of weeks back I kicked off an off-topic survey about which internet browsers and email clients people use. Here are the results:
This survey is off-topic and was suggested by Justin Dearing (blog|twitter) and I'm curious about the results too so I agreed to run it. We're
About a month ago I kicked off a survey around regularly rebooting SQL Server (see here). There is much debate about rebooting SQL Server (or
We’ve been off-line the last couple of weeks while we’ve been traveling around Europe and now I’ve got a bunch of blog posts to catch
I think many people imagine that technical acumen and razor-sharp problem solving skills are the most important skills to be a successful consultant. I would
I was searching around in the US Patent Office database this evening to find my patent for consistency checking of a backup without restoring the
(Used with permission from Dilbert.com) It's an interesting marketplace for DBAs right now. Depending on who you speak to, and what your view into
After a discussion on Twitter this morning, my good friend Steve Jones (blog|twitter) said it would be great to have a survey polling people on
I came across an excellent blog post on twitter today: 10 ways you know you’re with smart people. Go read it. If the top-10 describes you then you
Back at the end of January I kicked off a survey about the relationship between your DBA and dev teams. See here for the survey.
Today is a very exciting day for us here at SQLskills.com as we take the first step at growing as a company instead of solely
Last Friday our great friends Richard Campbell (who MC'd our wedding) and Greg Hughes invited us to record their 200th RunAs Radio podcast with them –
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