The Value of Experience
What type of previous experience makes a good DBA? Is it necessary to have other experience? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
2009-10-23
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Articles
The Value of Experience
What type of previous experience makes a good DBA? Is it necessary to have other experience? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
2009-10-23
733 reads
Getting started with SQL Azure
The cloud services from Microsoft for SQL Server are known as SQL Azure. MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us a introductory article about how to work with this service.
2009-10-22
9,707 reads
Top Ten Reasons to Attend the 2009 PASS Community Summit
There are some good reasons to think about attending the 2009 PASS Community Summit.
2009-10-22 (first published: 2009-03-24)
4,566 reads
Calling Stored Procedures from .NET Applications
Everybody knows how to call stored procedures from a .NET application. Right? But then, how often do you see stored procedures used to their full advantage in database applications? William Brewer goes through some of the basics, but uses PowerShell as the example .NET application, and avoids all mention of Northwind or AdventureWorks!
2009-10-22
5,661 reads
SQL Server Configuration
The importance of correct configuration. Which default configuration options to change. Common mistakes.
2009-10-22
4,609 reads
Transparency and PASS
I hate to start a blog war, but maybe there's one going on. The recent PASS 2009 election concluded a...
2009-10-22
1,151 reads
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
468 reads
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
574 reads
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
531 reads
Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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