devLINK Technical Conference to be Held in Chattanooga, TN, August 17-19
Conferences,Speaking Schedule | May 25, 2011 | 4:37 pmThis year’s devLINK Technical Conference will be held at the Chattanooga Convention Center, Chattanooga, TN this upcoming August 17-19, 2011. This three day event includes over 120 sessions, costs only $100, the least expensive full conference you can attend anywhere. While the conference is developer-oriented, it still offers plenty of SQL Server sessions. I will ...read more
Nominations are Open for the Fourth Annual Exceptional DBA Awards
DBA Career,News | | 3:15 pmSQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the fourth annual Exceptional DBA Awards are now open. Four years ago, the award was established to help bring about more awareness regarding the importance of the DBA role among the IT community. So far, three DBAs have won the award, and ...read more
100% Microsoft?
Opinion | May 10, 2011 | 12:08 pmReprinted from my editorial in Database Weekly. When I was a junior DBA many years ago (even before the company I work for now, Red Gate Software existed), I ran across some third-party software for SQL Server that I thought could really benefit my productivity and save my organization money. I presented my case, proving ...read more
May Question: What’s Your Backup Strategy?
Question of the Month | May 1, 2011 | 2:00 pmAs DBAs, one of our biggest responsibilities is to protect our data with backups. So, for this month’s question, “What’s your backup strategy?”, please share with us how your approach your backup process. For example, do you take full backups daily and trasaction log backups hourly? Or do you perform full backups weekly, differential backups ...read more
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