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Disaster recovery plans Oracle 10g Physical Standby — Part 1
Disaster recovery plans Oracle 10g Physical Standby — Part 1
MySQL Basic SQL Part V – Counting with SQL
Many counting problems I see in answering reporting questions centers around the ability to sum, count, group, and select rows. Most SQL practitioners can count or sum values just fine but when they must answer questions on how the counting or summing relates to other information they don’t quite know where to start. Read on to learn a few counting tricks in MySQL
Where Can You Attend a Conference…
for $100? The SSWUG.ORG vConference, that’s where. The current early-bird registration rates will expire on the 15th of March. Right now you can attend the vConference, right from your computer, and see an unbeaten line-up of MVPs, Authors and other industry experts, all talking about tips, tricks, how-to information and a whole lot more. You can’t beat the speakers, the content, the environment – online OR offline. People are bogging about the conference, talking about it on Twitter, Facebook and all over the web. We’re just flat excited to bring you this incredible content and these speakers at a fraction of the cost of a $2,000+ conference.
The sessions are technical, not sales. The presenters are talking about real-world solutions and tips you can apply immediately, not fluff. At a time when travel budgets have been all but eliminated, training budgets have been frozen and the need to leverage your time, efforts and expertise has been increased, this is the best tool out there to make it happen.
[Get registered today] You can even add-on a SSWUG membership for only $30. The show is broken into the disciplines you need – SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET Development and Business Intelligence. Register for one or more and you’ll be all set.
New Video Program Posted
SelectViews #125 – On the show today – Adam Levithan, Vishal Shukla, Sarah Barela and Shannon Callaway. From SharePoint to cloud computing lessons learned, from SQL Server security to development – great information!
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This show features several tech-industry experts, here in-studio for the upcoming vConference. Eric Johnson and Josh Jones get together for a discussion, Craig Utley and Erik Veerman are also on the show.
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On this show we have three interviews – Kevin Kline, Scott Golightly and Anthony D’Angelo. We talked about all sorts of things, from Business Intelligence tricks to upcoming tools.
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Newsletter Hiccup
Had a little newsletter hiccup yesterday – please take a look at the editorial here if you’d like to catch up.
Keep Learning!
I really love talking with speakers – I have learned a lot and wanted to pass along that it’s really important to find people with opposing and different views, ask questions, then listen. I had a number of assumptions and my own opinions about different technologies we cover here and I’ve learned both about more details on these, and about new applications or approaches to the technology. This is *critical* for being an outstanding database professional.
You need to constantly be learning, looking for new ways that other people are applying technology. How do they approach data marts? How do they create their reporting? What types of utilities do they run? Most importantly, WHY?
Ask questions, talk, see what applies to your work, what doesn’t. There will nearly always be at the very least a golden nugget of information and, who knows, perhaps they’ll you’ll have a sudden, deeper, new understanding of something that can save you time, money and/or sanity.
I know this seems a bit like basic advice, but if you’re like me, you get going on the normal stuff of life so quickly, so fast and furious, that you get a bit entrenched in what you do day-in and day-out. Take a few minutes and find someone to have some discussions with and ask questions, ask for opinions. Could be online, could be in-person. Just ask.
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Understanding and Interpreting SQL Server Performance Counters
The SQL Server database management system provides many performance counters. However, numerous explanations provided via the… (read more)