I have recently been notified that my neighboring SQL PASS Chapter Atlanta MDF will be sponsoring SQL Saturday 167 in Columbus GA.  The Columbus GA SQL Users Group has been dubbed the “Extreme Southwest Atlanta Chapter” by Aaron Nelson (blog, twitter)  For the past two years… Read more

WordPress creates a unique link for each of your post. They are broken out with your URL then YYYY / MM / DD then what you are allowed to name your link. This is inconvenient when trying to reference back to yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a shorter… Read more

Today a friend Kevin Edward Kline announced he was joining SQL Sentry.  Last week Kevin announced his intent to leave Quest Software which he has been at for over 10 years.  Being part of the SQL Community for the past 4 years, Kevin has been a staple of Quest.  When… Read more

Working on a recent consulting job, I was asked to explain the difference in throughput, which is, measured in MB/s verses IOPS as I had recommended a storage array that would provide many more IOPS and throughput than what is currently in use.

For this client I had presented the… Read more