Have You Heard? You Can Get a Mentor

Steve Jones and Andy Warren are at it again.  The founders of SQLServerCentral, SQLShare, and SQLSaturday have started a new...

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...

DevConnections – Heavily Discounted Passes !

DevConnections – London June 2011
DatabaseExpertise has negotiated 10 tickets for the main 2 day conference, at an amazing price of  £100!!!
The first...

Daily Denali Delight – Day 6

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

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27

For Day 27 of this series, I am going to talk a little bit about disk performance and one easy...

It’s a Deal, It’s a Steal…

Its the sale of the century. To coin a cleaned up phrase from a Guy Ritchie film (either Snatch or...

Connection strings and application name

G’day,
There are many things that developers and DBA’s can do to help their relationships run smoothly, most of them are relatively simply...

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,...

Presenting On DR & HA Twice This Week

Just a quick mention that I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room twice this week  - today,...

What’s Mentoring?

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