Free online classes “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professions”

Microsoft is putting on a great free three day online class for VMware professionals that need to learn more about Hyper-V. Day 1 will focus on “Platform” (Hyper-V, virtualization architecture, high availability & clustering) Day 2 will focus on “Management” (System Center Suite, SCVMM 2012 Beta, Opalis, Private Cloud solutions) Day 3 will focus on […]

SQL Excursions launched yesterday.

In case you missed all the talk about SQL Excursions yesterday, I’ll recap here since a lot of people read blogs but aren’t on Twitter. Yesterday, with great fanfare I announced the launch of SQL Excursions.  You can read all about it on the announcement blog post.  The important parts are: SQL Excursions is designed […]

Thinking about attending the SSWUG vConference? Sign up now and save $30.00

If you were planning on attending the SSWUG virtual conference “DB Tech Con” which is happening April 20-22, 2011; and you’d like to save $30.00 of the cost of the conference, have I got a deal for you.  When you sign up using the discount code SP11DBTechDC you’ll be given a $30 discount off of […]

Join me and Marathon Technologies as I talk about Consolidation and Virtualization

Join me Wednesday March 9th at 8am Pacific (11am Eastern) as I join Marathon Technologies as I present a webcast titled “Controlling SQL Server Sprawl: The Consolidation Conundrum and Availability Imperative“.  During this session I’ll be talking about some of the benefits and risks consolidating SQL Server databases and instances. Denny