TechEd 2009 Recap
Conferences, DBA Career | May 18, 2009 | 3:48 pmKeynote speaker, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of Windows Business at Microsoft.
TechEd 2009 was started with a keynote presentation from Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of Windows Business at Microsoft, which you can view at this link (along with many other videos from the event). He made several announcements, including that SQL Server 2008 R2 ...read more
Microsoft Offers User Groups Direct Support
User Groups | May 15, 2009 | 3:51 pmIf you are a leader of a Microsoft-related user’s group, and you haven’t done so already, you will want to check out Microsoft’s User Group Support Services at ugss.codezone.com. Once your user’s group is registered and approved by Microsoft, a wealth of services of available to you, including financial support, help with finding sponsors, managing ...read more
Do You Need an IT or CS Degree to be a Successful DBA?
DBA Career, Opinion | May 5, 2009 | 12:37 pmWhen I am making small talk with DBAs I know, one of the things I like to ask them is what their college degree is in. While Information Technology (IT) or Computer Science (CS) degrees are common responses, most DBAs I know don’t have a degree in IT or CS. In fact, the types of ...read more
SQL Server DBA Certifications: How Many People Have Which Certifications?
DBA Career | May 1, 2009 | 4:35 pmAccording to Microsoft, as of April 2009:
153,130 people have received the MCDBA: SQL Server 2000 certification
51,445 people have received the MCTS: SQL Server 2005 certification
854 people have received the MCTS: SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance Certification
3,577 people have received the MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence certification
333 people have received the MCTS: SQL Server ...read more
Physical File Defragmentation
Database Administration, Opinion | | 12:45 pmDo You Include Physical File Defragmentation as Part of Your SQL Server Maintenance?
Ever since I can remember, beginning with MS-DOS 1.0, physical file fragmentation has often been a problem on many systems I have used, hurting I/O performance as the disk heads have to thrash about to find all the many file fragments that make ...read more
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