We seem to be busting at the seams lately with quality content from great providers. I wanted to recommend to you a great series of webinars that is being delivered by Microsoft. They cover all the reasons you should examine SQL Server 2008 as your next generation relational and intelligence platform and, of course, will have lots of great examples of the big improvements Check out all the action here !
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How exciting was last week! Some of the top experts in the country all gathered together through support from SQLServerCentral.com, Wrox and Wiley Press and of course, us here at Pragmatic Works. The week went well and I want to point you to a few links where you can watch the webinars from the Week of Warehousing. All Presentations and Slides are here . You will want to especially check out yours truly’s session on performance tuning. I got a lot of great questions from the webinars and will be...
We are all facing the challenges of this new economy. There are very few people and industries in the world today that have been unaffected by the failures and poor management of some of our largest institutions. I would like to discuss an alarming trend that I have seen in organizations around the country. Just being the Senior DBA will not protect you from a potential downsizing. Many people are not doing what they can to show the value they bring AND create for their company. There are lots o...