Planning your 2010 Professional Development
Brad suggests some tips on how to maximize your professional development in 2010. Get a plan together now, and you'll make your life a lot easier.
2009-11-23
204 reads
Brad suggests some tips on how to maximize your professional development in 2010. Get a plan together now, and you'll make your life a lot easier.
2009-11-23
204 reads
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
2009-11-20
77 reads
Software licensing can be complex and confusing. Even in Windows and SQL Server, where hard limits are not enforced, people have problems determining how they should license software. Steve Jones talks about what vendors could do to help us.
2009-11-19
179 reads
A guest editorial from Phil Factor looks at the Speed Phreak competition that has been taking place recently and is quite popular. Read about the inspiration for the competition and why you might want to participate.
2009-11-18
270 reads
Why attend a conference? After the PASS Summit and SQL Connections, Steve Jones shares a few thoughts about the benefits of attending a conference for employees.
2009-11-17
92 reads
Does a programmer need to know how his code gets executed? Arguably, developers should focus on database structures rather than a particular implementation, and Phil tries to convince us that good programming is not just knowing everything about your programming environment.
2009-11-16
122 reads
It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.
2009-11-16
87 reads
This Friday Steve Jones has a poll for the programmers and hybrid DBAs out there. If you work with code, why do you use C#? Or why not?
2009-11-13
283 reads
The decisions to install service packs and cumulative updates is often confusing to new DBAs. Many of them install every update, often without a good reason. Steve Jones asks why we might not have a better way to install updates, maybe even helping us decide if we need them.
2009-11-11
123 reads
With the PASS Summit taking place last week in Seattle, Steve Jones found that there was a tremendous amount of SQL Server news and information on Twitter. It's a medium that is becoming useful for SQL DBAs.
2009-11-09
81 reads
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