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• A SQL Saturday in Cambridge – Buck Woody’s Ragtime Database Workshop

  The SQL Server community is really engaged. They are an active bunch on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, they help each other on forums, they attend conferences. But that isn’t enough interaction – the community started a grass-roots effort Read More... Posted Monday, July 30, 2012 2:49 PM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer, DBA, SQL Server, Career, Conferences, Customer Contact, SQLServer, Data Professional, Community, Real World DBA

• Big Data and the Cloud - More Hype or a Real Workload?

  Last week Microsoft announced several new offerings for “Big Data” - and since I’m a stickler for definitions, I wanted to make sure I understood what that really means. What is “Big Data”? What size hard drive is that? After all, my laptop has 1TB of Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:57 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer, Microsoft, DBA, SQL Server, Career, SQL Azure, Conferences, PASS, SQLServer, Data, Data Professional, Cloud, Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Storage, Concepts, Azure Use Cases, Policy Based Management

• SQL Server for the Oracle DBA Links

  I do a presentation (and a class) called "SQL Server for the Oracle DBA". It's a non-marketing overview that gives you the basics of working with SQL Server if you're already familiar wtih how Oracle works. This class and these links DO NOT help you with Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:29 AM by BuckWoody | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer, Microsoft, DBA, SQL Server, Link Lists, Conferences, Links