Microsoft, in its usual vein of focus-on-the-wrong-thing, has decided to rebrand the anticipated Powershell 4.0 as PowerCloud. To keep the new theme consistent, cmdlets will now be called “cloudlets”. When I heard, I was – of course – livid. Yet ANOTHER name change as fickle as a college student rearranging Ikea furniture in a smelly 10×12 […]
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SQL Saturday Oklahoma City precon: Becoming an Enterprise DBA
We’ll be at OKC this summer for their SQL Saturday on August 23, and we’re presenting our precon “Becoming an Enterprise DBA” August 22!. Get your early bird ticket by July 15, and save over 15%! Precon: Becoming an Enterprise DBA August 22, 2014, Norman Technology Center, Moore OK There’s a real and quantifiable difference […]
#TribalSQL: A new book by new voices in SQL Server
Two years ago, we were talking about how cool it would be to get a bunch of unpublished authors to write about what they thought was important about databases. You know, tribal knowledge. So we sent out a call for abstracts and got the ball rolling on one of the coolest things we’ve ever been a […]