Balancing Work and Life

Balancing work and home life is nothing new; we’ve had this challenge for a long time. But in recent months...

SQL Server Standard Reports Winforms

In SQL Server, there is a good set of preloaded reports to help you monitor the Instance.  These reports can be found under the Standard Reports and can be...

SQL Server Standard Reports Winforms

In SQL Server, there is a good set of preloaded reports to help you monitor the Instance.  These reports can...

Becoming a DBA: How to gain experience

Last week I had an interesting telephone call from a someone who I connected with on linkedin.com. On Linkedin I’m...

SQL University Lecture Series: Women in Tech

This week SQL University is on Spring Break but we’ve lined up some activities to help keep students busy (you...

24 Hours of PASS: Day 1

Yesterday was the first day of PASS’ 24 Hours of PASS event. For those not familiar, 24 Hours of PASS is...

Disaster Recovery Exposure - Part Two

 In part one, I gave a general overview of some of the things that may affect IT services in the...

Disaster Recovery Exposure. - Part One

 G'day,

I've just readPaul Randal's sqlmag article about the need to test your disaster recovery strategy. In that article Paul mentions...

The MCM is Worldwide

Well, not everywhere, but as long as Prometric sites meet some security requirements, they can offer the MCM tests. I...

Has Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Reached The End Of The Road?

I'm a big proponent of using Virtual Machines for development on your local machine. It just doesn't make sense to...