New SelecTViews Show
On the show this week, hear from Kevin Kline and TJay Belt. Talking buy vs. build, consolidation lessons learned, the cloud, security and many other great tips.
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[Watch Now] Craig Utley and Jason Strate on SelecTViews.
[Watch Now] Donald Farmer and Buck Woody on SelecTViews.
Have You Registered for the Smart Database Design Class?
Paul Nielson is teaching it and it’s going to be great – hands-on training, specific approaches to design, performance and what you really need to know and have in place for your systems. This classroom-based learning is second to none and Paul will make absolutely certain you have the information you need going forward to make sure your applications are designed correctly from the ground up. This will be an excellent class, but it’s very limited seating (only a maximum of 10 more seats). The class is October 26, 27 and 28 – but be sure to reserve your seat right away.
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Deploy, Secure, Manage
I thought this was a really great way to summarize what you’re working with as you support applications. Steve Ballmer, talking about the ways Microsoft is approaching application support was talking about "Deploy, Secure and Manage" as the key steps that IT is responsible for. For me at least, it kind of put things into the three buckets and activities that make sense in terms of steps you need to be taking. This applies to SQL Server, SharePoint or just about any application you may be using and supporting.
If you consider the IT lifecycle, it breaks rather nicely into these buckets, and it gives you the opportunity to start thinking about applications along more standard lines, rather than application-specific lines. I was talking with a SharePoint presenter today about SharePoint deployments and how it works with SQL Server. The things we were talking about in this regard were very much along the lines of "it just runs and the admin tools take care of security for you." Made me kind of nervous, but if you had review points in place to work with the applications and answer the questions around deploy, secure and manage, it might be much easier to approach.
As I was thinking this through, I ran across a great project on codeplex about Patterns and Practices and Application Architecture. Check out this great guide – and see if it provides for you what I was seeing. As I was going through it, it really had me taking a step back and thinking through the things that accompany putting apps in place. There is really solid information in this guide and it should provide a solid basis for you in your own work to standardize and work with applications coming onto your systems.
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