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• 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 | 7 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

• 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 9, 2010 2:12 PM by KKline | 3 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Administration, People, Speaking, Quest Software, Troubleshooting, Professional Development, PASS, Tools, Developer