About 3mos ago I had my work box rebuilt. The encryption software glitched and it just wouldn’t boot. So the helpdesk girl was able to slave the drive to another box and copy my [...]
With the popularity of the cloud, we’ve decided to give you a present in the cloud this year. If you don’t like it you can thank Microsoft for trying to get everything in the cloud.
A recent email chain with a friend has spawned me to write this post. What I’m trying to do here is help the 2 extremes of people you’ll find in your company: the idiot, [...]
There are times in a DBA’s life when the answer is No. And for once I’m not talking about a DBA asking a girl out. This time I’m talking about requests we get from [...]
Today’s keynote with Dr. DeWitt starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s keynote, titled “Big Data – What is the Big Deal?“, see the [...]
Today’s keynote with Quentin Clark starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s keynote (“a demo-packed adventure across SQL Server solutions that span traditional boxed [...]
I got a request today to compare 2 DBs and see if they’ve got all the same tables. It seemed easy enough since I’ve got the redgate Schema Compare tool, but it actually isn’t. [...]
