Category: All Things MidnightDBA

Video: Designing Stored Procedure Solutions

My new session for 2014, “Designing Stored Procedure Solutions”, is now up on the Sessions page: abstract, video, and code! This month, I gave this session at the Oklahoma City SQL Server User Group‘s 5 year anniversary, and at the Alaska SQL User Group, to thousands and thousands* of attendees and wild** applause. I’m looking […]

Powershell is now “PowerCloud”

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 […]

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 […]