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...

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...

The Exceptional DBA for 2011

Once again we’re running a contest to find the Exceptional DBA around the globe. I’ve been a judge the last...

Where’s StrateSQL?

Earlier this year, I had started off with a bang. I think I had 51 posts in January with a...

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...

Oh ****!

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

SQL Treeo – Create custom folders in SSMS

SQL Treeo is free add-in to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) which enables user to create own folder structures within...

SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0

I bloog about mysql to sql server migration lastly here Today found very good migration tool Free Downloads: 1. SSMA...

The Ties that Bind Us....Community, People, Exceptional DBAs...

Hi, All.  Just some thoughts on a passing scene.  Didn't expect to blog today.  Many projects in the queue, but...