Jason Carter has spent most of his career as a .NET developer, with time spent as a development manager, accidental DBA, and most recently a full-time DBA. Having worked with large databases as a developer, he found great interest in tuning, tweaking, and making databases run faster. With the support of his wife, he gave up his managerial duties, jumped the development ship and dove head first into his new career as a Database Administrator.

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SQLSaturday Tools

Much has been said about SQL Saturday tools and how PASS is pulling back from development of those tools past...

2018-04-06 (first published: )

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Initial Config of tempdb

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