Brad McGehee

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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Help Design a New SQL Server Monitoring Tool

by Brad McGehee

SQLServerCentral

In an experiment in SQL Server community involvement, the members of Red Gate Software’s software development usability team have created...

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2009-09-03

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Josef Richberg Voted Exceptional DBA of the Year

by Brad McGehee

SQLServerCentral

For the second year in a row, SQLServerCentral.Com and Red Gate Software have sponsored the Exceptional DBA of the Year...

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2009-09-03

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SQL Bits Conference to Run Three Days

by Brad McGehee

SQLServerCentral

The next SQL Bits conference, the largest SQL Server conference in Europe, will be held at the Celtic Manor Resort...

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2009-09-03

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24 Hours of PASS was an Adventure

by Brad McGehee

SQLServerCentral

On July 21, just a few short weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Rick Heiges, who is on the...

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2009-09-02

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

by Brad McGehee

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

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.