Backing Up Your Old Systems

I am currently on a project to review some older servers (SQL 2000 and 2005) for SIMPLE recovery (and therefore...

Meme 15 - LinkedIn

 The #Meme15 assignment from Jason Strate (Blog/@StrateSQL) for February is to describe how and why we use LinkedIn.  I felt...

SQLRockstar's SQL Someday

http://vimeo.com/33411604
This is a talk given by Thomas LaRock (@SQLRockstar to you Twitter-folk) at an event last fall in NYC called...

Meme Monday - What I Want for Christmas from Microsoft

This Christmas if I could get one thing from Microsoft it would be recognition that DBA's are not developers.  This...

Going to PASS 2012!

As I have previously written about in this space, I have recently moved to House of Brick Technologies.  Part of...

The Industry Problem according to @Way0utWest

Steve Jones (blog/@way0utwest) from SQLServerCentral posted his daily editorial today titled "The Industry Problem" in which he describes an article he...

Why is -fill in the feature- Enterprise-Only?

Steve Jones (Blog/@Way0utWest) recently wrote a great blog post proposing that Microsoft should go from having edition-only features (most of...

Moving to House of Brick

Starting Halloween Monday I will be a Technical Consultant for House of Brick Technologies.

To everyone out there saying "Didn't you...