A DBA’s Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Five)
06/17/21 We’ve reached the final piece of our five-part series, and while I’m sad to end it, I hope you or your DBA teams have learned enough to move forward with the Information M…
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A DBA’s Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Four)
06/10/21 Welcome back! We’re nearing the end of our five-part series, and I hope you’ve gotten the information you need as a DBA to mature your business. In this part of the series…
A DBA’s Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Three)
06/01/21 Welcome back! As we enter the halfway point of this five-part series, we’ll discuss Level 3 of the capability maturity model (CMM) and the role it plays in helping DBAs gr…
A DBA’s Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Two)
05/19/21 Welcome back to our five-part series in which we discuss a top habit for DBAs to increase business functionality. In part one of this series, we discussed the importance o…
A DBA’s Habits for Success: CMMI (Part One)
04/23/21 Finding the perfect flow for your business can take time and patience. Like almost anything else in life, a business must go through stages of maturity before it reaches i…
Key Challenges of Database Cloud Migration
03/25/21 As we shift enterprise computing to the cloud, the need for database migration increases—but with this comes the inherent challenges of migration and the need to plan. Mov…
Further Tips on our Database Migration to the Azure Cloud Session at MS Ignite 2021
03/11/21 I was really stoked to deliver a session at Microsoft Ignite with my long-time friend and fellow Head Geek™, Tom LaRock, on the topic of migrating an on-premises SQL Serve…
5 Universal Steps to Cloud Database Migration
03/10/21 Chances are if you’re reading this, you are (or are thinking about) moving to cloud. While cloud migration isn’t a new term and many people are migrating, there are a few …
Meet the New Old Guy on the Head Geek Team
02/26/21 Growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, WA, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was like most everyone else’s experiences. Dad worked as an analog computer engineer for a Boeing…
7 Things DBAs Should Do Before Going On Holiday
02/18/21 Thanks to 2020, many of us don’t remember the last time we took a holiday or vacation. If you were able to get away from the office, kudos to you. Hopefully, 2021 will be …
How to Become a Microsoft MVP
02/16/21 I’ve been a Microsoft MVP since 2003-2004. Over the years, the number one question on my personal FAQ is “How do I become a Microsoft MVP?” So, let’s answer that question …
Virtualizing SQL Server: Strategies and Best Practices
10/31/19 SQL Server virtualization is an expectation today, including for mission-critical systems. In its first decade of implementation, virtualization was rare for database work…