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  • RE: What Counts for a DBA – Inspirations

    Jeff Moden - Tuesday, February 27, 2018 8:03 PM

    Brent, thank you again for the great show you put on for our user...

  • RE: What Counts for a DBA – Inspirations

    Aww, thanks for the kind words, sir! You've been an inspiration to me for years - continuing to knock out books is hard, hard work. I respect the stuff you're...

  • RE: Is This Data Science?

    xsevensinzx - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:30 AM

    The issue however is something I feel is plaguing our school systems here in the...

  • RE: Is This Data Science?

    Thanks for the link!

    When I wrote that post, I tried to go really far out of my way to go, "Look, seriously, I don't know anything about data...

  • RE: Understanding Your Value

    andrea.raimondi - Tuesday, January 2, 2018 1:43 AM

    In other words: a DBA who has 7 years of experience all in the same...

  • RE: The Career Bucket List

    jasona.work - Friday, August 25, 2017 6:26 AM

    Brent, I wouldn't put the "owning a fast car" in the no fun category.  Go...

  • RE: The Career Bucket List

    Awww, thanks sir!

    Yeah, mine changed over time too. When I was in high school, I only had two written goals: own a 28' sailboat by the time I...

  • RE: The Tethered Goat

    The big problem with building this stuff is liability. We go through the liability insurance renewal process every couple/few years, and the liability questions are getting pretty specific about the...

  • RE: Analysis Services Lives On

    I was totally shocked when I saw them release Azure Analysis Services.

    Over and over, people keep asking for SSRS in the cloud. I don't hear a lot of cries for...

  • RE: The Database Transaction Unit (DTU) Decoded

    Totally fooled me with the title. I clicked on it in today's newsletter INSTANTLY, because I was so excited to learn how it worked. Hahaha, nice one.

  • RE: Just Say No

    Seems like it gets tougher as your career gets better, too. I get a lot of opportunities laid at my feet - "Here, come speak at our event and we'll...

  • RE: vNext 2016

    Markus (5/7/2015)


    My big question will be for the encryption... does it come in Standard Edition or do you have to have Enterprise Edition to get that feature?

    In Azure SQL Database,...

  • RE: vNext 2016

    Ed Wagner (5/7/2015)

    The last time I saw a presentation on Azure, there was no *real* SSMS window, just click-click-click.

    Ah, that's definitely a bad move on the presenter's fault. You can...

  • RE: vNext 2016

    Ed Wagner (5/7/2015)


    While I guess I'd expect Microsoft to put more and more into Azure, it has a long way to go to catch up with the boxed product.

    Ed -...

  • RE: vNext 2016

    There was a really interesting use case for Stretch Tables explained at Ignite this week - temporal data (which is also a new feature in SQL 2016.)

    If you enable temporal...

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