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• Four New Slide Decks for SQL Server and IT Pros from the DevLink 2014 Conference

  Get slides about Microsoft SQL Server: Internals & Architecture, Top 10 DBA Mistakes, Ten SQL Coding Practices, and Persuasion Techniques for IT Pros Read More... Posted Friday, August 29, 2014 7:37 AM by KKline | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL Programming, Best Practices, Administration, Internals, Professional Development, Conferences, Tools, Developer, Career, SQL Server 2014

• SQLintersection!

  Get the details on Kevin's keynote address at the SQLintersection conference in Las Vegas in early April. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:47 AM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Administration, Speaking, Conferences, Tools, Developer, High Availability, Architecture, DBA, Monitoring, SQL Server 2012, AlwaysOn, IO

• SQLMag = SQL Server Pro. Goes all-digital!

  I was recently chatting with Megan Keller, my long-time editor for the Tool Time column and Executive Editor at SQL Server Pro , DevProConnections , and SharePoint Pro . I've subscribed to SQLMag ever since it was first put to print back in the late 1990's. Read More... Posted Friday, April 27, 2012 9:30 AM by KKline | 8 Comments Filed under: Tools, Developer, SQLMag, DBA, DevConnections

• Dev Advice: Make a Tiny Dev Database Act Like a HUGE Prod Database

  If you're struggling with doing development on a big SQL Server database, learn the ropes on cloned databases asap! Read More... Posted Friday, March 16, 2012 10:30 AM by KKline | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Programming, Best Practices, Tips, Tools, Developer, SQLMag, Transact-SQL Programming

• What I'm Reading, July 22 2011

  I read too much, and that, my friends, is an entirely separate topic for a blog post. But I thought I'd share with you a little more about what I'm reading because sometimes, if I'm lucky, it might be something you'd enjoy too. So I'm going to start sharing Read More... Posted Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:43 AM by KKline | 3 Comments Filed under: Trends, Tips, Troubleshooting, Virtualization, Tools, Cloud Computing, FutureWatch, News Analysis, Developer, Google, NoSQL, Business Intellience, MySQL, Big Data

• From SQLMag Tool Time Column: SSMS Plug-in News

  I first wrote about Mladen Prajdic's excellent tool in my Tool Time column at SQL Server Magazine HERE . The tool is a nice plug-in to SSMS and definitely worth having. If you’ve never installed it or have only installed an older version, but sure to Read More... Posted Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:00 PM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance, Administration, Tools, Developer, Sybase

• Have You Heard About Project Lucy?

  Lucy, You Got Some 'Splainin to Do!' Quest Software's latest community initiative, Windows Azure-based Project Lucy, has debuted! Project Lucy is part infrastructure analytics, part social media experiment, and part performance data warehouse. The best Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:17 PM by KKline | 3 Comments Filed under: Performance, Best Practices, Quest Software, Troubleshooting, Tools, Cloud Computing, Developer

• Azure, a Beautiful Color, and So Much More...

  Windows and SQL Azure Resources Cloud computing is more than just the latest buzz word in the IT trade papers. It is a remarkable paradigm shift with as much potential to "turn over the apple cart" of IT computing as client-server had for the world of Read More... Posted Thursday, January 27, 2011 5:04 PM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Administration, Tips, Tools, Cloud Computing, Developer

• My Last "Catch-Up" Post for 2010 Content

  I did a lot of writing in 2010. Unfortunately, I didn't do a good job of keeping all of that writing equally distributed throughout all of the channels where I'm active. So here are a few more posts from my blog, put on-line during the months of November Read More... Posted Friday, December 31, 2010 3:57 PM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Trends, Best Practices, Administration, Troubleshooting, Opinion, Professional Development, Database Design, Tools, Ethics, Society, FutureWatch, News Analysis, Developer, Career

• Free Training for You, Punishing Workload for Me. Thank You for Enjoying My Misery.

  Everybody enjoys a little free training now and then. I've got mountains of free training in the works. Some of it is in-person and local while some are in webcast format. Please join me as you're able! Tomorrow - Wednesday! Wed, Feb 10, 2010 12 pm (noon) Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:12 PM by KKline | 3 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Administration, People, Speaking, Quest Software, Troubleshooting, Professional Development, PASS, Tools, Developer