How to Counter Intolerance, Adapted from UNESCO’s Recommendations

1. The Battle Against Intolerance Requires Law
Every Political Entity needs to reinforce Human Rights, and punish crimes motivated by hate against minorities, whether they be committed by individuals working for the state, private organisations or by individuals in their own… Read more

Just the other week; I was asked to help validate an application database hosted on a Mac, when I was introduced to the public domain database engine SQLite. To my surprise, it is actually the most deployed database engine in the world, since it is so small and… Read more

 
After revising the popular Blog post, Developing Your DBA Skills Futher Thanks to Experience with Multiple RDBMS, of just over a year ago, and great editing work from Andrew Clarke and Chris Massey, the third article for Simple talk has come to life.

Enjoy :)

The Polyglot of Databases: How… Read more

Already hit by yesterday's Tsunami, the fires have taken over the main center of town in Kesennuma, Miyagi, where I stayed in 1992 with the Suzuki family. They are continuing to burn tonight and moving inland (excuse the ads at the beginning from some Chumps trying to gain publicity… Read more

SCOM Does the core job of monitoring SQL Server instances very well (Health Monitoring) – but it is not going to make maintenance plans for you. 
You need to set up the database infrastructure first, so go to this article to start your SCOM journey: Here is a guide… Read more

 The raincoast weather could be a little better, but so far, I am very happy with the brain-filling load of sessions we are having here at Microsoft’s Campus, and mostly in a building they call the ‘Mixer’. The first day, yesterday, I managed to get out for a couple… Read more