My MCM Lab experience.
So just in case you missed it, I took and passed the Microsoft MCM lab last Thursday. Since I’m the first person to go through the test in the new format I wanted to put together some comments (as best I can thanks to NDAs). So the MCM gives you 6 hours to complete, and […]
In honor of my receiving my MCM, Amazon has started selling “Securing SQL Server” on the Kindle.
OK, that’s totally BS, but it sounds awesome doesn’t it. But it is sort of true. I was grabbing the URL for my book to send to someone today, and I noticed that the Kindle version had a price listed. The book is $39.96 at the moment (I don’t set the price), so all of […]
SQL Service Broker isn’t going anywhere.
All to often when I give a SQL Service Broker presentation, or when I’m talking to people about it they want to know what the odds are that SQL Service Broker will be removed from the platform like how Notification Services was ripped from the product after just one release. So here’s just some of […]
If you aren’t doing backups, you aren’t doing your job.
Apparently people still haven’t figured out that taking backups of SQL Server databases is actually a requirement of having a SQL Server database. There was a conversation recently on Twitter about yet another forum question where the OP talked about the crashed database that they had without any backups what so ever. Some people don’t […]