Answering forum questions can now get you cold hard Amazon Gift cards
Tech Target has upped the perks of posting on their IT Knowledge Exchange forum (the same site that hosts my blog). Tech Target recently announced that by posting on their site, and earning badges by gaining points, and getting sent Amazon Gift cards for earning the badges. Not a bad deal if you ask me. […]
MySpace’s failures had next to if not nothing to do with the Microsoft stack or being in LA
If you were on twitter in the last couple of days you may have seen some links to a blog post titled “MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft” in which the author tries show that because MySpace used the Microsoft stack (ASP.NET, IIS, Windows, and SQL Server) […]
Microsoft has made the decision to unleash me on Tech Ed North America
Apparently someone at Microsoft has completely lost their mind. They have signed me up as a speaker for Tech Ed NA 2011. I’ll be presenting a session titled ‘What’s New in Manageability for Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named “Denali”‘. This is a 300 level session so it will be full of all sorts of “Denali” goodness. […]
SQL Backup Compression and Backup Dedup are mortal enemies
If you have a modern tape backup solution you probably have some sort of dedup process in your backup environment. What these deduplication processes do normally is look at the data which is being written to the backup platform and remove duplicate values in order to save space on the tape backup system. However if […]