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Is Your Application RESTful?

SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop Watch our Interview with Laura Rose, who is a software industry veteran and business coach. You can also check out the latest news about OpenStack Diablo, MySQL’s commercial extensions and more… Watch the Show Featured White Paper(s) How to Implement an Effective SharePoint Governance Plan Written by AvePoint Moving past the "what" and "why" of […]

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Cloud Readiness… Where do things stand?

New Show! SSWUG TV – Interview with Laura Rose, who is a software industry veteran and business coach. We also have the latest news about OpenStack Diablo, MySQL’s commercial extensions and more. [Watch the Show] SSWUG TV – In this episode, we have a two-part interview with SQL Azure MVP Ike Ellis and updates coming from the Microsoft Build conference. […]

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How Do You Feel About Cloud Providers?

(Closing Friday Sept 23!) September Survey – 7 Questions to WIN We’re giving away not one, but two 2-year memberships to SSWUG.ORG – all you need to do is give us your thoughts about SQL Server and Bananas. No, really. It’s only 7 questions, and you can win… Seriously, could use your feedback – please stop by the survey site […]

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Trigger Tension

(Closing in a few days!) September Survey – 7 Questions to WIN We’re giving away not one, but two 2-year memberships to SSWUG.ORG – all you need to do is give us your thoughts about SQL Server and Bananas. No, really. It’s only 7 questions, and you can win… Seriously, could use your feedback – please stop by the survey […]

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Doing the Right Thing

SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop Check out the new name for our video-based content, which will be one of many upcoming site revitalization efforts. In this episode, we have a two-part interview with SQL Azure MVP Ike Ellis and updates coming from the Microsoft Build conference. Watch the Show $$SWYNK$$ Featured White Paper(s) How to Implement an Effective SharePoint Governance […]

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Auto-Pilot and Your Systems – Trust but Verify

Check out the latest free show: SSWUG TV – We’ve unveiled a new name for our video-based content, which will be one of many upcoming site revitalization efforts. In this episode, we have a two-part interview with SQL Azure MVP Ike Ellis and updates coming from the Microsoft Build conference. [Watch the Show] Featured Article(s) The State of Database Administration […]

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Are You on Auto-Pilot… and Should You Be?

Have you seen the latest show? (It’s free) SelecTViews – Interview with Kalen Delaney, author of SQL Server 2008 Internals. We also have news about Hitachi Data Systems purchase of BlueArc, the upcoming PASS Summit 2011 and more. [Watch the Show] Are You on Auto-Pilot… and Should You Be? In our upcoming show I get to talk about getting back […]

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Editorial Thoughts for Today

Asynchronous Programming We have been talking about the expansion of the number of CPUs in a single server, and the impact it has on software and software strategies. I started off talking about parallel programming. As David mentioned in the reader’s feedback in the newsletter yesterday, the biggest issue with parallel threads is when you have to share memory. One […]

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Parallel Wrapup

SelecTViews With Stephen Wynkoop Today you’re in for a treat as Stephen interviews Kalen Delaney, author of SQL Server 2008 Internals. Of course there is a lot more…Watch the Show Parallel Wrapup Our readers have submitted a number of good insights and suggestions for parallel processing. Today we’ll wrap up this particular topic with those comments. Michael: Since 25. August […]