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Top 3 3rd Party SQL Server tools every Database Administrator needs

Every SQL Server database administrator needs one or more 3rd Party tools such as: monitoring tool schema and data compare tool Entity relationship diagram (ERD) diagramming tool These 3rd Party…

Top 3 SQL Server books on the RETIREDDBA.COM bookshelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals by Itzik Ben-Gan Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals by Kalen Delaney Pro SQL Server 2008 Fail-over Clustering by Hirt, Allan I wish these books…

The best SQL Server consultant you may not know!

I’m sure at some point in your career you have come across a few SQL Server consultants or SQL Server trainers. You probably read one of their books, attended a…

Top 3 SQL Server 2017 features

The top 3 SQL Server 2017 features that every Database Administrators should be excited about. SQL server 2017 Cloud computing Using Azure SQL databases and Azure managed services becomes more…

All Database Administrators Man Your Battle Stations

So awesome SQL Server Database Teams always have meticulous battle plans that are used to implement projects, upgrades, SQL Server service packs, SQL server cumulative updates, etc. into production. Right?…