A while back, I hit a point in my life where I wanted to start taking my family on vacations. I’d experienced enough success that I wanted to share my good fortune with the people I loved. As part of that, I started taking each member of my family on a cruise. Dad’s chosen destination…
Not quite a junior DBA, not quite a senior DBA – there’s a mid-career point where we know just enough to be dangerous, but not quite enough for our own good. Join Microsoft Certified Master Brent Ozar in this ten-minute video as he discusses statistics, table variables, and recompilations. … This SQLCruise snippet is brought…
In the beginning, when we first started working with SQL Server, our servers had a few drive bays built in. Over time, as we needed more and more storage, we had to transition to Storage Area Networks (SANs). SANs are independent, flexible, well-protected, and blazing fast – at least in theory. In reality, most of…
Congratulations to Doug Lane (Blog – @DougLane4), the winner of Idera’s SQLVictory contest. He produced this killer video about a time when he vanquished the SQL beast: For his efforts, Idera’s sending him on SQLCruise Alaska for free! Idera also gave two runners-up prizes of $300 Amazon gift cards, plus several runner-up prizes of $100…