(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.) First blog post [&]
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The last post of the year! It’s been a terrible year all round, as Im sure youll all agree, and Im very glad were rolling into 2021 in a few hours. Now its time for my traditional post counting down some of the numbers and showing some of the photos that have been my (and [&]
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Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year and people have been enjoying it, so Ive continued the tradition ever since. Until 2020. I do most of my reading while traveling, which I only did once this year back in March, and [&]
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(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.) Last week I [&]
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Last month I was looking for the spinlocks whitepaper and discovered that both it and the latches whitepaper had disappeared from the Microsoft website. I contacted my good friend Pedro Lopes in the Product Group and he arranged for them to be integrated into the SQL Server documentation. You may be asking what whitepapers? & Back [&]
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(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.) I had a [&]
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Since my first round of community mentoring back in 2015, when I mentored 54 people for six months, Ive been asked periodically whether Id do it again. My answer was always something like maybe it was a lot of work and I didnt think Id have the time, given that wed started to spend [&]
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Back in 2015 I mentored 54 people for a few months in a huge variety of non-technical subjects, including: General career development Deciding whether or not to change jobs Becoming a consultant R'esum'e review and enhancement How to hire people Increasing influence Learning how to work with their manager Communication skills (e.g. writing emails, writing [&]
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Back in April when nearly everyone was locked down, we moved all our Chicago classes to October. Now, given the continuing COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic and the many travel restrictions companies have in place, we decided that in-person classes are just not feasible this year and weve moved all our classes to be completely online! They will now [&]
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Continuing our new partnership with Kandio, we now have an Azure DBA assessment for you to try! We’ve been involved in a lot of recruiting processes for our clients and realized we could save everyone time and money by pre-screening candidates. To that end, we’ve teamed up with Kandio to publish exclusive candidate and skill assessments for SQL [&]
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Continuing our new partnership with Kandio, we now have MySQL assessments for you to try! We’ve been involved in a lot of recruiting processes for our clients and realized we could save everyone time and money by pre-screening candidates. To that end, we’ve teamed up with Kandio to publish exclusive candidate and skill assessments for SQL Server [&]
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(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.) There was a [&]
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Were excited to announce that we have a new partnership! Weve been involved in a lot of recruiting processes for our clients and realized we could save everyone time and money by pre-screening candidates. To that end, weve teamed up with Kandio to publish exclusive candidate and skill assessments for SQL Server and other database [&]
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You may not know that Tim and I are both into 3D printing in a big way. Youll definitely know that theres a big shortage of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) right now across the world. Because of this, many people around the world with 3D printers are helping out by printing masks, parts for face shields, [&]
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Its Spring on Saturday so its a perfect time to ensure your SQL Server instances are configured correctly and performing well. For all new clients, were dropping the price of our signature health check down to US$2,495 saving US$500 off of the already-discounted price. This special offer will be in effect for all new [&]
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By popular demand weve made the recordings of our live, online classes available to purchase now you have a way to learn from us while youre stuck working from home! These classes were all delivered live during 2019 and recorded using WebEx. Each class package has three recordings of 3-5 hours each, plus demo [&]
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Given the current COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic and the many travel restrictions in place, we have moved all our Spring classes to October, and all registered students have been contacted individually. If you were concerned about signing up for the classes due to travel or budget concerns, youve now got another few months to get things sorted [&]
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(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.) Last week I [&]
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