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  • Buck Woody - Microsoft's "Real World DBA"

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Buck Woody}
    Hello, I'm Buck Woody - Microsoft's "Real World DBA". I go by that title not because I'm a DBA here (we do have a lot of those, though) but because for over 25 years I've worked as a Data Professional. I've worked at organizations from NASA facilities...

  • New Stuff

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan_Jones}
    I’ve always loved getting new things. And when it comes to software it’s no exception. I enjoy exploring a new release of my favorite app – see how things have changed and advanced and discovering new features. There are two new things that I want to...

  • SQLPASS Summit Recap

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan_Jones}
    Yesterday the was the final day of the SQLPASS Summit. Today we have our last Insiders’ Session. There are numerous conference statistics I could site but the one I think says it all is 2,200+. This is the number of attendees. That’s a lot of people gathered...

  • SQLPASS Community Summit Preview

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan_Jones}
    The SQLPASS Community Summit is one of the most exciting annual conferences for the SQL Server team. Bringing together thousands of professionals to talk about SQL Server is simply amazing. Last year I had the honor of standing on stage with Ted Kummert...

  • Crossing Boundaries

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Donald_Farmer}
    Were you in Las Vegas last week? If you attended the SharePoint conference in the Mandalay Bay resort, you probably thought you were. But Las Vegas is famously a city of facades, illusions and well-kept secrets. Caesars Palace isn't really Rome, nor...

  • Month O' Conferences

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan_Jones}
    November is the month of conferences. There are four pretty major conferences going on and we have SQL Server Manageability sessions @ all of them. Here’s the run down: SQL PASS When: November 2-5, 2009 Where: Seattle, Washington Site: http://summit2009...

  • SQL Azure – Let’s Get Started

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Lynn_Langit}
    As you may know we've announced that Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Windows Azure , will have commercial availability as of the first day of the upcoming Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles on November 17th, 2009. In addition...

  • Introduction From Quentin Clark

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Quentin_Clark}
    By way of introduction, I run a team in SQL Server called Database Systems Group. It’s the engineering team that builds the relational systems for SQL. The single largest piece of this is the core RDBMS itself (usually referred to around here as The Engine...

  • Divining Oracle

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Donald_Farmer}
    Bar Bosch , in Palma de Mallorca, is one of my favourite places to hang out. It's hectic and noisy, but still leaves space and time for endless discussions or reflection. It is the perfect place to pretentiously pore over Žižek or Derrida. Yet in...

  • Does Consolidation = Virtualization?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan_Jones}
    In early 2001 I worked @ a start-up company with about 150 people. I call it a start-up because it had no revenue but did have free breakfast, lunch and dinner. @ the company there were five people named Michelle and six named Dan (including yours truly...

  • Virtualduction

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan_Jones}
    Hello, I've always found introductions, especially virutalductions, awkward. But since it's good for you to know who's sitting at the keyboard I'll give it a shot. My name is Dan Jones, I'm a principal group program manager on the SQL Server...

  • What a Shocking Bad Hat!

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Donald_Farmer}
    Nineteenth century London was famous, or perhaps notorious, for the jokey catchphrases heard in its streets. They sprang from who-knows-where and spread around the city, amongst urchins and gentry alike, in a matter of hours. Charles MacKay, in his...

  • Virtually Unstoppable

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Donald_Farmer}
    A friend insists that we'll only know the recession is over when software vendors no longer start every whitepaper with the phrase "In these tough economic times ..." It may be as reliable an indicator as any. Meanwhile, in these tough economic...

  • Leverage: An Introduction

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Donald_Farmer}
    My father was an engineer and spent many weekends in the garage nursing his various old cars. Frankly, I was little help, but there was one job I loved: lifting the big old monsters onto the axle-stands with the hydraulic jack. At 10 years old, I felt...

  • Welcome from Lynn Langit: Who I Am and What I Do Around Here

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Lynn_Langit}
    I wanted to first introduce myself to the community as an upcoming contributor for the BIEB (Because Its Everyone's Business) blog. My name is Lynn Langit and I have been a Developer Evanglist in Southern Califonia for about 3 years. Prior I ran my...