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7 Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make When Upgrading to SQL 2012

7 Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make When Upgrading to SQL 2012

It’s new, it’s shiny, and it smells like frozen yogurt.
No, it’s not the blender you got for Christmas. It’s SQL 2012 (formerly known as codename ‘Denali’). And it’s here. And you want to use it, you know you do.
As much as you would like to believe that migrating to SQL 2012 is as easy as [...]

12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012

12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012

It’s the end of the year and already I am seeing the usual blog posts that either reflect on the year that was, or are pondering the year to come. I thought about writing another post covering all of the things that didn’t happen to me this past year but since I’ve already done that [...]

Help Your SQL Family Give Even More

Late last week, while I was traveling to the Confio world headquarters, I received a direct message on Twitter that simply pointed me to this link that I want you to go and read right now:
Done? Good.
Here comes the important part: action. I want you to do three things:

Write a #SQLFamily story. It doesn’t have [...]

Oracle. Oppressive. Costs.

It seems that everywhere I turn these days I am either reading or hearing about how the new SQL2012 licensing changes are the worst thing since Windows Vista, and possibly since Microsoft Bob.
Well I am here to tell you that things could always be worse. How so? Check out this blog post regarding Oracle and [...]