My Bet is That You’re a Hoarder…Me Too. I don’t know if you’ve seen the series of shows on a couple of different cable networks on hoarding, but they’re pretty interesting looks at the psychological triggers people go through in "collecting" – it seems like so many of the folks that are facing this say something along the lines of […]

Rapid Deployment Tools – What Are Yours? I had a great discussion with an Azure MVP today – we’ll have more on that as we get the show produced and ready to go. We talked though about deployment times and the impact that the cloud is having on expectations for getting new databases up and running. It hits me that […]

Your Future as a DBA? Secure. Bright even. But perhaps not for the reasons you anticipate! I’ve been talking with more and more DBAs about the fact that the architecture and performance side of things is becoming increasingly important. Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not because of current applications support, but rather design of applications to support mobile devices and cloud-based solutions. […]

At Times, I Fear the Cloud I’m not an alarmist by nature. So I bring up the following not as a "pile-on" but rather as a "you should know about this…" Did you hear about the power outages from Amazon and Microsoft’s European cloud services? Sigh. It’s real, and it shouldn’t have happened in my humble opinion. It’s not that […]

The Core of the (BI) Issue…? I’ve been talking with a lot of speakers, writers and other industry professionals trying to get a handle on the challenges of successful Business Intelligence (BI) projects. One thing is becoming increasingly clear, and that is that of course you have to start in small steps. I don’t think that’s a suprirse by now. […]