Mar 2, 2017 | Career, Contracting, Professional Development, SQL Server, TSQL |
This question gets asked a lot and reoccurs over the years. Do you need a degree to be DBA? I have seen many blogs and posts addressing this question. From recollection, most of the posts I read came down on the side of not needing a university or college...
Feb 21, 2017 | Career, Consulting, Contracting, Professional Development, SQL Server, TSQL |
In my latest learning tree newsletter, I discussed analysing some of the salary survey data that the good folks over at BrentOzar.com collected and made available back in January 2017. The data is very interesting and in my first post on this topic over the learning...
Jan 22, 2017 | Professional Development, SQL Server 2014, TSQL |
I have been working on SQL Server Consulting assignment, a SQL Server 2014 migration for a new client over the past few weeks. When I’m undertaking such tasks I’m often asked additional questions that make my day a little interesting. I got a question...
Sep 13, 2016 | SQL Server, SQL Server Training, TSQL, Windows |
My Top 5 series of books has proved very popular. The first post titled Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the blogs most popular post in August. My post last week about my Top 5 SQL Server Books for the DBA has also been well...
Apr 6, 2016 | SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016, TSQL |
I have been working nn an environment that had multiple copies of a database on the same SQL server instance. In this case the SQL Server was acting as both a UAT and Training environment.The application was supported by two databases. Each database had...
Feb 9, 2016 | SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Training, TSQL |
Just a short post for a Tuesday to let you that I will delivering Learning Tree’s 534 Developing SQL Queries for SQL Server course in Learning Tree’s London Education Centre. It’s a four day course starting on Tuesday 19th April and will complete on Friday 22nd April....
