The Shield

The Shield

How many of you are known as the “Grumpy DBA” or have a bad reputation with users because you are always saying no or they have to wait? I know many DBAs that have this reputation. To avoid this, I use my manager as a shield and suggest you do too. As a Lone DBA, with...

April #SQLChat – “Migrating SQL Server"

April #SQLChat – “Migrating SQL Server"

Did you know SQL Server 2005 falls out of service April 12? Join us for a Twitter Chat and you’ll be fully prepared for future Server migrations! Our next #SQLChat will take place Tuesday, April 12 at 11 AM CT with Rie Irish (@IrishSQL).Questions will revolve around...

March #SQLChat Wrap-Up

Our March #SQLChat took place Wednesday, March 9 at 11 AM CT. This Twitter Chat was hosted by both John Sterrett and Robert Vandervoort and was centered around “DBAs Role in Data Modeling.” Due to IDERA’s recent addition of database development solutions, this was the...

Thinking Strategically about SQL Server on Linux

People all over the database world were in for a stunner this week when Microsoft announced  that they will be supporting SQL Server installations on Linux in mid-2017. My inbox has been flooded with questions ever since. I believe this move makes a lot of sense for...

New Query Analysis Features in Monyog

While looking to optimize your MySQL, you are needing to spot slow/bad queries at a glance and get deep insights about them with ease. The latest update of MONyog brings new easier ways to find problem SQL in Real-Time, Wayback Machine and sniffer based Query Analyser...

March #SQLChat – “DBAs Role in Data Modeling”

March #SQLChat – “DBAs Role in Data Modeling”

We are excited to welcome the data modeling audience into IDERA! And to prove it, we are hosting a #SQLChat! IDERA’s next Twitter Chat will be held on Wednesday, March 9 from 11 A.M. to noon (CT). The topic of this chat will be centered around DBAs Role in Data...

February #SQLChat Wrap-Up

IDERA hosted its 8th Twitter Chat on Wednesday, February 17th at 11 AM CT with Mike Fal, Senior Database Administrator for Xero. Questions focused on what tasks and tools people commonly automate, techniques they use to do so, and more. During the chat, there were...

RAD Studio setting the vcl application icon.

RAD Studio setting the vcl application icon.

I recently received a question from one of my customers, asking how to set the icon for an application (in this case a VCL application). This is something that I’d understood to be trivial, but when I tried it for myself I learned that in fact, it’s more tricky than...

SQL Family: The Wonder Years

SQL Family: The Wonder Years

Last week, Bill Wolf aka @SQLWareWolf and I somehow got onto the topic of High School pictures. So in jest, I decided to post mine and hash tagged it with #SQLHSPics on Twitter. I challenged others to do the same, only really expecting @SQLWareWolf to respond in kind....

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