Usability Testing Lately I’ve been taking time to review the concept of Usability and Usability testing. Whole disciplines have been built up around the practice. Some organizations find it extremely useful while others find it to be misdirection of resources. It seems that the design of the test itself may often be a cause of failure. Like any form of […]
Author: Ben Taylor
Life After Upgrades
PASS 2011 Starts Today I’m sure many of us would like to be at PASS. For those of us who are not attending, don’t forget that there will be some interesting content available online. Check out www.sqlpass.org/summit for more details. If you’re attending the summit, don’t forget you have the opportunity to make donations helping the homeless in the Redmond […]
Life After Upgrades
PASS 2011 Starts Today I’m sure many of us would like to be at PASS. For those of us who are not attending, don’t forget that there will be some interesting content available online. Check out www.sqlpass.org/summit for more details. If you’re attending the summit, don’t forget you have the opportunity to make donations helping the homeless in the Redmond […]
ODBC to Become the New Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity Standard
ODBC to Become the New Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity Standard Microsoft has announced that it will be phasing out support for the proprietary OLE DB database driver in SQL Server. This is a bit of old news…but something you are going to need to take into account sooner or later. The next release of SQL Server code named Denali will […]
ODBC to Become the New Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity Standard
ODBC to Become the New Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity Standard Microsoft has announced that it will be phasing out support for the proprietary OLE DB database driver in SQL Server. This is a bit of old news…but something you are going to need to take into account sooner or later. The next release of SQL Server code named Denali will […]
SQL Server Migration
SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop Today on SSWUG TV find out some of the latest news from the Sharepoint 2011 and the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Conferences. Watch the Show SQL Server Migration Today we have some questions and comments regarding SQL Server Upgrades. Stephen: What Version of SQL Server are you talking about? Stacy: During our last migration to SQL […]
SQL Server Migration
SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop Today on SSWUG TV find out some of the latest news from the Sharepoint 2011 and the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Conferences. Watch the Show SQL Server Migration Today we have some questions and comments regarding SQL Server Upgrades. Stephen: What Version of SQL Server are you talking about? Stacy: During our last migration to SQL […]
Are you ready to migrate?
Are you ready to migrate? The next release of SQL Server is drawing closer to release. My mind naturally turns towards upgrades. The SQL Server migration tools of the last couple releases have made the transition much easier to make. The database files themselves were much easier to handle than modifications to Reporting Services or Integration Services. For those still […]
Are you ready to migrate?
Are you ready to migrate? The next release of SQL Server is drawing closer to release. My mind naturally turns towards upgrades. The SQL Server migration tools of the last couple releases have made the transition much easier to make. The database files themselves were much easier to handle than modifications to Reporting Services or Integration Services. For those still […]
The Terms Overlap
The Terms Overlap As we’ve been considering Database Appliances a number of terms, techniques, problems and solutions continue to overlap. We see terms like Cloud, Appliance, Parallel Processing, Distributed data, Structured data, Big Data and distributed processing continue to appear with different implementations behind each. None of these terms are mutually exclusive as I see it. Different offerings take a […]