Survival Mode & Dodging Burn Out

One of the benefits of experience is that you can see problems coming, that doesn’t mean you have enough experience...

ABL: Always Be Learning

If you have been in the IT field for any length of time, I’m sure you have heard the phrase...

devLINK Technical Conference to be Held in Chattanooga, TN, August 17-19

This year’s devLINK Technical Conference will be held at the Chattanooga Convention Center, Chattanooga, TN this upcoming August 17-19, 2011....

Efficiency of Subqueries and OR conditions in SQL

A discussion of how joins significantly outperform subqueries and how this is more evident when OR conditions are involved.
SQL queries...

Looking Back at SQLRally Orlando

It’s been almost two weeks since we wrapped up our first SQLRally, and in some ways it hasn’t quite sunk...

Monitor your SQL Server Agent Proxies Using PowerShell

Over time it's easy to lose track of the things you set up to get work done. As a consultant,...

New Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of Hosting TempDB on FusionIO

New Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of Hosting TempDB on FusionIO

A colleague I work with on the PQO* Operations SQL V-Team, Jonathan...

Nominations are Open for the Fourth Annual Exceptional DBA Awards

SQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the fourth annual Exceptional DBA Awards are...

Oh ****!

Did you ever accidentally close SQL Server Management Studio? And, in closing SSMS, did you get the prompt that says...

Recovery Model for Every Database

One thing that is enjoyable about my position is working with people who have no idea what SQL is besides...