Slide Deck From Buena Park .NET User Group

Last week on Wednesday night I had the privilege of presenting a session to the Buena Park .NET User Group.  The session that I gave was “Indexing for the .NET Developer”.  The abstract for the session is: “In this session we will be looking at the best and worse practices for indexing tables within your […]

SQL Server 2012 Licensing Changes

So you may have heard earlier today about the license changes that are coming out for SQL Server 2012.  I know that the official announcement can be a little hard to get through and the changes can be a little confusing at first (or even second or third) glance.  The SQL Server licensing team was […]

VMware’s vCenter and SQL Server Database Backups

VMware’s vCenter system uses SQL Server as it’s default database platform.  One thing that needs to be looked into for a lot of VMware installations is the backup setup for the vCenter databases.  Often I find the vCenter databases configured in SIMPLE recovery.  Now this doesn’t mean that the database is simple to recover in […]

Learn Storage and Virtualization online

Now you as a database professional have the chance to earn Storage and Virtualization from home, work, or where ever is convenient for you.  As a partnership with SSWUG.org I’ve recorded an 11 session class titled “Storage and Virtualization for the DBA” which is being delivered online via SSWUG’s virtual conference platform which will allow […]