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Regular Columnist: Brad McGehee

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Brad M. McGehee is a MCSE+I, MCSD, and MCT (former) with a Bachelors’ degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration. Currently the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software, Brad is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 13 years’ SQL Server experience, and over 6 years’ training experience. Brad is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, SQL Connections, SQLTeach, SQL Saturdays, TechFests, Code Camps, SQL Server user groups, and other industry seminars, where he shares his 13 years’ cumulative knowledge. Brad was the founder of the popular community site SQL-Server-Performance.Com, and operated it from 2000 through 2006, where he wrote over one million words on SQL Server topics. In 2008, Brad attended 16 conferences/user group events, presented 26 sessions, and had 1,402 people attend them. A well-respected and trusted name in SQL Server literature, Brad is the author or co-author of more than 14 technical books and over 100 published articles. His most recent books include “How to Become an Exceptional DBA,” and “Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008: The Top Ten New Features for DBAs,” and “Mastering SQL Server Profiler.”

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Is Your Server Vendor Providing the Quality, Innovation, and Support You Need?

We should get help from vendors, as well as support, but what about innovation? Today's guest editorial from Brad McGeHee asks if the third party tool vendors for SQL Server are doing enough to provide value for the cost of their tools.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/10/06 | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 20 reads

Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans

Brad's Sure Guide to Maintenance Plans shows you how to use the Maintenance Plan Wizard and Designer to configure and schedule eleven core database maintenance tasks, ranging from integrity checks, to database backups, to index reorganizations and rebuilds.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee | Source: Red-Gate | Category: books
Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 215 reads

Have You Checked Out the SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Yet?

The next update for SQL Server has had a major release with the CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. Brad McGehee is wondering if you've seen some of the enhancements that have been added to this new version.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/09/02 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 82 reads

Backup to the Cloud - No Excuses

With the proliferation of high availability & specialist online Backup companies, do we really have any excuses left to NOT have an offsite backup location, even if it is in the Cloud? Brad things not...  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/08/10 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 69 reads

Does Maturity Make a DBA?

Brad reflects on the characters of the DBAs he's met in his life, and suggests a common thread running through them all.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/07/27 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 158 reads

How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Edition

Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee | Source: Red-Gate | Category: books
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 622 reads

What's Your Ideal DBA Job?

Brad engages in a little Summer daydreaming, and wonders what the Ideal DBA job would look like...  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/06/29 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 225 reads

Support Your Local SQL Server User’s Group

Are user groups dying out in the age of the Internet? It seemed that way for awhile, but Brad McGehee gives some reasons why you should think about attending a meeting.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/06/09 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 139 reads

Decoding Micro-speak

MVP Brad McGegee spends a lot of time talking to people at Microsoft. He's learned how to interpret thier language, and understand what they mean when using certain terms.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 0001/01/01 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 118 reads

Do You Need an IT or CS Degree to be a Successful DBA?

MVP Brad McGehee explores the education of the typical DBA and what they have studied in the past.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/05 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 192 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 6: Creating Custom Traces

The sixth and last module of the training course "Becoming a Profiler Master", describes how to create custom Profiler traces, tailored to the specific performance problem you wish to investigate.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/21 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 3,060 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 5: Data Columns

The fifth module of the training course "Becoming a Profiler Master", looks in details at the data columns that are associated with the Profiler events discussed in module 4.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/19 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 4,963 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 4: Profiler Events

The fourth module of the training course "Becoming a Profiler Master", takes a detailed look at the many events and event categories that can be collected with Profiler.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/14 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 3,065 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 3: Getting Started

This, the third installment of the "Becoming a Profiler Master" online training course, shows how to start, stop and control Profiler and how to save the traces.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/12 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 3,835 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 2: Profiler Architecture

This module, part 2 of the online training course "Becoming a Profiler Master", discusses the inner workings of Profiler.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/07 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 3,864 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 1: Introduction to Profiler Concepts

In this video written by MVP Brad McGehee you can learn how to get started using the Profiler GUI.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/05 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 4,463 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Video Training Course

In this 6-module course, Brad McGehee provides an in-depth, step-by-step guide to mastering the basics of SQL Server Profiler, a powerful performance monitoring and analysis tool.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 1,163 reads

Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Introduction

This is the introductory module for the SSC Online Video Training course, Becoming a Profiler Master. In it, MVP Brad McGeHee will discuss some of the critical factors that might persuade you of the need to master this powerful SQL Server profiling tool.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/04/30 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Video
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 4,377 reads

Online T-SQL Scripts and Copyright

The issue of copyright for online scripts is a grey area. If a script is published without any form of copyright notice, most people assume that it is freely available for reuse. It's not necessarily the case.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/04/20 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 268 reads

Physical File Defragmentation

A guest editorial by Brad McGehee talks about physical fragmentation and asks if you are concerned about it on your servers.  Read more...
By Brad McGehee 2009/05/01 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Editorial
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 201 reads
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