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Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Did you know that the original holiday was meant to handle a problem of long working hours and no time off? Although that battle was won a long time ago,…

DBA News your operation can use!

Some recent articles on SQL Server Operations Studio: The State of SQL Server Tools Development Microsoft Sharpens SQL Operations Studio’s Job Management Tools Public preview: Azure SQL Data Warehouse extension…

Dbas if you are up late at night ….. again…. check this out!

DBA’s take a look at these FREE technology tutorials from the MidnightDBA on youtube I recently watched this MidnightDBA tutorial on youtube: Beginning Powershell for DBAs This tutorial runs 1…

Alas poor SQL Server 2018 where are you?

World’s greatest secret is where is SQL Server 2018? It’s already August 2018 and not a peep on SQL Server 2018? Mums the word! There must be a REAL tight…

If you want to be a DBA super hero, read this!

This is a book review of ‘SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL, 4th Edition’. This book’s 4th edition published in 2018 is a…