T-SQL Tuesday 73 - Naught or Nice - Change Control Process
You better watch out, you better not cry, gonna find out who's naught and nice - TSQL Tuesday #73 is coming...
2015-12-08
2,375 reads
Robert Pearl
SQLSatDC - Down in DC - 12/5
Saturday, December 5, 2015: SQLSaturday#470 is on track to be an extraordinary event in DC this Saturday, with a fantastic...
2015-12-02
1,171 reads
T-SQL Tuesday No.72 - Is Your Data Model, Normal?
Well I’m not
a data modeler, nor do I play one in the corporate world. But it is TSQLTuesday No. 72,...
2015-11-10
2,467 reads
No longer a SQL Server MVP - Read Carefully.
As of October
1, 2015, I am no longer a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Countless of my colleagues met the same...
2015-10-27
1,758 reads
First Day as DBA - Now What?
It's your first day at Corp of
America as DBA. The old DBA left. The sysadmins are managing the SQL Servers.
And...
2015-10-23 (first published: 2015-10-19)
4,213 reads
Be a Social SQL DBA Superhero - #SQLHelp
Following up on my previous blog
on introducing the “Social DBA”, I spoke about the concept of leveraging
social networking to excel
in...
2015-10-08
1,567 reads
Intro to the Social DBA with a bit of #SQLHelp
Are you a Social DBA?
No I don’t mean that you are a DBA and attend a myriad of merry mixers,...
2015-10-06 (first published: 2015-09-28)
2,495 reads
The Future Virtualization of the Workforce - Telecommuting
Welcome to the 21st century! 20th
century habits die hard! What am I
talking about today? I’m talking about the virtuous virtue...
2015-10-06
1,498 reads
Excel as a Database Professional
People ask me all the time how to become a DBA. This is a topic that so many colleagues of
mine...
2015-09-24
2,154 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #70 - SQL Server In the Enterprise
PearlKnows WeB log, Stardate 2015.9.8: This week’s topic is strategies for
managing an enterprise, brought to us by one half of...
2015-09-08
3,118 reads
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