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Book Review: Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware
tl;dr – I do not recommend this book. I was so incredibly excited when it was originally announced. A book published by VMware Press, written by prominent VMware, SQL, and storage consultants? GREAT!...
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Monitoring Oracle with Statspack
At some point, you’re going to need to know what’s wrong with your Oracle instance. While there are a lot of monitoring tools around, there’s always some reason why third party monitoring tools can’t...
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I’m Speaking at kCura Relativity Fest 2014 about SQL Server
I’m very proud to announce that kCura selected me to speak again this year at Relativity Fest, the annual gathering of e-discovery professionals. I’ve been doing a lot of Relativity work (here’s a...
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How to Get Your Query’s Execution Plan [Video]
You’ve got a query that’s running too slow, and you need to figure out why. The first step is admitting that you’ve got a problem, but the second step is getting the execution plan. In this 16-minute...
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SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Common Questions
Transparent Data Encryption is a way to encrypt your data in SQL Server. It affects the data and log files of the database. I recently gave a webcast on this topic, and got some great questions about...
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How to Tell If You’re Good At SQL Server Transaction Replication (Quiz)
Let’s play the quiz! We’re using the honor system: be honest with yourself. Five Simple Questions When I say the first name “Hilary”, you immediately know his last name is ____. Have you successfully...
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Oracle Backup Basics for SQL Server DBAs [Video]
To get ready for Tuesday’s webcast, here’s what you have to do: Watch the video below, but watch it today (or over the long weekend). There will be no live presentation this week and we won’t be...
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Teaching Tips: Help Your Audience Be Active Learners
Brent uses handouts to get his audience to optimize queries as part of his presentation We teach a lot of courses. In addition to our online training, free webcasts and sessions at major conferences,...
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Finding Unanswered StackExchange Questions with SQL
You love Q&A sites like StackOverflow.com and DBA.StackExchange.com, but sometimes it’s hard to find interesting questions that need to be answered. So many people just sit around hitting refresh,...
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Log Shipping Magic: Using A Differential Backup to Refresh a Delayed Secondary
Log: It’s better than bad, it’s good! Let’s say you’re a DBA managing a 2TB database. You use SQL Server transaction log shipping to keep a standby copy of the database nice and warm in case of...
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Get in the (SQL Server) Community Spirit [Video]
Thanks for tuning in to our webcast again this week! To join our weekly webcast for live Q&A, make sure to watch the video by 12:00 PM EST on Tuesday, September 9! Not only do we answer your...
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Developers: Who Needs a DBA? [Video]
You store data in SQL Server, but you don’t have enough work to keep a full-time DBA busy. In just half an hour, you’ll learn the basics of performance troubleshooting and index tuning from me – a...
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Great new Microsoft KB article: Recommended SQL Server Updates and Trace Flags
Got a high performance SQL Server 2012 instance? Check out the brand new KB article for recommended updates and configuration options for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 used with high-performance...
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We’re Changing SQL Server Training Classes.
Until now, SQL Server training usually meant registering for a course, showing up, hearing a lecture from a podium (often from someone who’s only done demos on their laptop, not production systems),...
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Top 5 Tips for Your First Presentation (Video)
Tune in here to watch our webcast video for this week! To join our weekly webcast for live Q&A, make sure to watch the video by 12:00 PM EST on Tuesday, September 16! Not only do we answer your...
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The Very First Concern with SQL Virtualization: Licensing
Every single thing you do with a virtual SQL Server starts with one very important concern: how are you going to license it? The 3 Common Ways to License Virtual SQL Servers The software licensing...
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Our #SQLPASS Schedule (And a Downloadable Calendar)
Want to see our sessions in Seattle? Add all of our calendar events to our schedule: Download an ICS file for Outlook Subscribe to an XML feed Or if you’d rather add individual events: Kendra Little –...
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Getting Started with Oracle
Let’s assume you want to get started with Oracle. Maybe your employer is switching to Oracle, maybe you just want a career change. Where do you go to get started? There’s no need to feel lost. Getting...
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Introducing sp_BlitzRS®
Tune in here to watch our webcast video for this week! To join our weekly webcast for live Q&A, make sure to watch the video by 12:00 PM EST on Tuesday, September 23! Not only do we answer your...
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Is Azure Really 60% Faster?
Microsoft just announced a new round of D-grade VMs that have 60% faster CPU and local SSD than can go up to 7,000 IOPS in a canned IOmeter test. Before jumping to conclusions or, even worse, picking a...
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