Andy Warren

I'm Andy Warren, currently a SQL Server trainer with End to End Training. Over the past few years I've been a developer, DBA, and IT Director. I was one of the original founders of SQLServerCentral.com and helped grow that community from zero to about 300k members before deciding to move on to other ventures.

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How Much Power Does Your PC Use?

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I can’t say I’ve ever worried too much about how much power my PC uses. I care about battery life...

2013-04-08

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Failing to Overreach

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I’m not sure what put this phrase in my head, though I think in part it came from various posts...

2013-04-03

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Mo-SQL On A Stick

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed...

2013-04-01

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Mo-SQL

by Andy Warren

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If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed to – depending on your view or the product I suppose – make databases simpler, break out of the transaction database paradigm, scale out across hundreds of machines, make it easy to change the db design (or not require one). I think some of the problems no-sql tries to solve are real, others reflect a lack of awareness/training/tools on how and why relational databases could not just solve the problem, but solve it better.

2013-04-01

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