Book release must be getting close, sample pages now available on Amazon.
So, I’m guessing that my first solo book must be getting close to shipping. You can now flip through the first 11 pages of “Securing SQL Server” (preview page) on Amazon’s website. Now the images in the online preview are in color, but the book won’t be (or so I was told) so they must […]
Your job is to make the systems run at their top performance.
So I got an email from someone (and yes he told me that I can publish this post about it) because he was having an argument with his storage / systems team about LUN config for the SQL Servers. He wanted smaller LUNs so that they could be more easily moved around if performance problems […]
The SQL Rally (#sqlrally) voting as started, and I’ve got a session up for vote this week.
The SQL PASS organization has taken a different approach to session selection for the SQL Rally than they normally do for the annual summit. Instead of a full program committee which selects sessions then announces them, they are leaving the session selection up to the community via a vote. This weeks voting is for the […]
My slide decks from #sqlsat62 in Tampa.
I gave two talks at the recent SQL Saturday 62 in Tampa, FL and I had a blast doing it. As promised I’ve posted them on Monday (it is still Monday my time, so that counts right)? Storage and Virtualization for the DBA (Pre-Con) Where should I be encrypting my data Thanks everyone for coming […]