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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 14/03/14

March 14, 2014 by John Sansom 1 Comment

Good reads from around the Web.Smart Coffee

There was a lot of quality content posted this week from the SQL community, with an abundance of great posts being curated off the back of this months sublime T-SQL Tuesday theme choice courtesy of Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter). Well played sir.

Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….

From the SQL Server blogs

  • When Do You Fire the DBA? – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • I Don’t Mind SELECT * Sometimes – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
  • How Safe is Your Data From Theft – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
  • Buffer Pool Extensions in SQL Server 2014 – Klaus Aschenbrenner (Blog|Twitter)
  • Eye Heart You Dee Effs – Russ Thomas(Blog|Twitter)
  • Scans are better than Seeks. Really. – Rob Farley (Blog|Twitter)
  • sp_updatestats Is Not Smart – Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter)
  • Building a Workstation for SQL Server 2014 Dev and Testing – Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter)
  • Extended Events – It Doesn’t Have to be Hard – Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter)
  • Stop Tuning with Wait Stats Percentages – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • Stop depending on “it depends” – Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter)
  • Why I Hate Row Compression – Bob Pusateri (Blog|Twitter)
  • Good News About SQL Server Standard Edition’s Limits – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • Cardinality of dm_exec_sessions and dm_exec_connections – Russ Thomas(Blog|Twitter)
  • SQL Nexus 4.0 Released to codeplex – CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog)

SQL Community Conversations

What your SQL community peers are talking about this week. Join the conversation..

  • Database for SQL Cert Practice – Finding and using free databases for learning.
  • Job Postings on the forum? – The community discusses and votes to permit job posts.
  • Learning To Let Go – Identifying failure and why it’s actually ok.

Other Stuff Worth Reading

  • How clouds are making sysadmins extinct – TheRegister
  • Papers, Please: The ‘boring’ game that became a smash hit – BBC News Technology
  • Do Microsoft Employees Get Certified? – BornToLearn
  • Mark Zuckerberg ‘confused and frustrated’ by US spying – BBC News Technology
  • Google’s massive Drive price cut is just the beginning – TheRegister

If you have an idea for the weekly links post, general feedback or just want a chat then please get in touch.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.

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About John Sansom

I’m a Microsoft Certified Master(MCM) of SQL Server. I’ve been working with database technology in a variety of flavors for over fifteen years. I absolutely love what I do and genuinely feel privileged to be a part of our tremendous technology community. Got a question about SQL Server or being a DBA? Ask me!

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