The developer / DBA relationship.

G’day,

A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as...

What name should I call myself?

In creating this blog, I was thinking about using some catchy name for myself.  Something with “DBA” in it.  However,...

What’s Mentoring?

We have just kicked off The Mentoring Experiment after talking about it for months. There has been a lot of...

A SQL Experiment – Mentoring

News Flash The SQL Community is about to get stronger.  Why?  There is a great new initiative that was recently launched.  Steve Jones and Andy Warren are teaming up...

A SQL Experiment – Mentoring

News Flash
The SQL Community is about to get stronger.  Why?  There is a great new initiative that was recently launched....

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 26

For Day 26 of this series, I want to talk a little about laptop processor selection (since I get a...

Daily Denali Delight – Day 4

Code-named Denali – the next version of SQL Server is fast approaching.
And whenever CTP2 gets released you can be sure to...

MS Certs Exam price is rising ...

Today Marlon Ribunal twittes come with new info about MS Certifications exams are rising...

This is not a good news, so...

Powershell Day 26

Day 26 Generate script Generate script for sql server objects is very simple, there are different ways we can generate...

Replication Monitor – Friendly Names

You may have noticed when you setup a merge pull subscription using the
New Subscription Wizard in SSMS that you...