What is an “operational” DBA?

On Facebook last night, I posted the following:
An operational DBA isn’t just a manager of a traditional RDBMS, transactional system....

Entity Framework Fluent API and Indexing

With the release of Entity Framework 6.1 the Fluent API can now be used to create indexes. It’s still pretty...

Finding the last successful CHECKDB

One very important part of your SQL Server maintenance procedure should be running consistency checks on a regular basis using...

Finding the last successful CHECKDB

One very important part of your SQL Server maintenance procedure should be running consistency checks on a regular basis using...

It's not Business, It's Personal

Hello Dear Reader.  I find myself at this late hour unable to sleep.  Yesterday the slate of speakers for the...

Microsoft Azure Portal Preview looks promising !

This is one of those posts which is pending for a very long time. I was pretty excited when Azure...

PASS Summit – What Does It Mean To Me?

PASS Summit – what does it mean to me? So listen, I’m not perfect. I will never claim to be and...

Passion

I know I tend to be overly passionate. It’s something that has gotten me into trouble in the past. It’s...

Reducing the Disk Size of a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Have you ever created a Hyper-V virtual machine and later needed to change the size of the disk on the...

SQL Server 2014 – How to add features to existing instance ?

SQL Server 2014 – How to add features to existing instance ? :-
1) Start installation center

2) Run Global Rule, You need to...