While I'm recovering from surgery, I've been thinking about what makes a technology poster worth putting up on your wall? As I walked around TechEd last week, there was no shortage of posters available for all sorts of technologies.  Some were mostly diagrams without many words, while others were almost entirely verbal.  Even among the ...

I wanted to take a minute to draw some attention to a few things in this month’s SQL Server Magazine.  If you’ve gotten your copy of SQLMag, you’ll notice poster that's a really great reference guide for SQL Server system stored procedures.  This outstanding poster can hang in your cube or office and outlines the function and syntax of ...

I'll be at the Hyatt Rosemont (near the airport) all day on Thursday presenting on Virtualization and Consolidation for SQL Server environments.  Several other experts will be joining me, including fellow SQLblogger John Paul Cook.  There's lots of great content and the training session lasts all day.  There's even a free lunch ...

Hi everyone, This is from my friend, Johnny Ortega, Lead Developer of Toad for SQL Server: Quest has started the Toad for SQL Server v4.0 beta program. Please visit Toadsoft.com (http://www.toadsoft.com/toadsqlserver/toad_sqlserver_beta.htm) to try out beta build 4.0.0.211.  Naturally, it is free and a great way to sample the feature ...

Hi everyone, There are a couple new product updates to mention at Quest. First, I am happy to announce the release of InTrust for Databases 2.2 What is it?: InTrust® for Databases is a fully featured, independent database audit management system that provides maximum visibility into database activities and ensures all corporate database ...

This release of Toad for SQL Server includes major overall performance improvements allowing much faster query execution and data display.  Other improvements in this release include: Enhanced query development and debugging with: “Error highlighting” which highlights SQL code that causes an execution error so issues are immediately ...

Quest is once again hosting one of my quarterly seminars this Wednesday, Nov 14, at the Seattle Hilton.  The seminar is a free, half-day event focusing on scaling out VLDBs on SQL Server and on disk and IO tuning in a SQL Server 2005 environment.  (It is not a sales or marketing pitch!) If you can spare some time on Wednesday morning, ...

I was the initial architect for a number of the SQL Server tools offered by Quest Software.  Check them out at http://www.quest.com/sql_server.  This month, a number of new products have been or are being released.  Here are some of the products with some of their new features: Capacity Manager 2.0 – GA July 23 New Features in ...

As you may know, I've been with Quest Software for several years now.  I'm proud of our SQL Server products and had a hand in the development of most of them.  Here are two new releases that I'd like to mention: Change Director for SQL Server v1.2 provides a powerful automated solution for managing change to SQL Server databases. ...