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• PASS Summit: What’s the Shape of the Future?

  Gushing First I have to gush a little about the PASS Summit. Skip ahead if you like - this type of stuff doesn’t make for the best reading, and I won’t be offended. The Summit was amazing as ever this year. The thing I love about it, in addition to just Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:53 PM by merrillaldrich | 6 Comments Filed under: pass, theory, cloud

• Top Tools I Didn’t Know I Needed as a DBA

  Today’s post is an unabashedly subjective plug for a bunch of unrelated tools I have come to rely on and love. I’m not really a “tools guy,” so there are no doubt better and worse tools for these tasks out there. I’m not affiliated with any of the vendors Read More... Posted Thursday, April 07, 2011 5:01 PM by merrillaldrich | 9 Comments Filed under: monitoring, cloud, SCOM, tools, productivity

• Cloud computing sounds good, but...

  With all the talk about cloud computing, I felt a little sheepish for being worried about mundane things like backup, and whether many users might underestimate what they need to do after turning over all their data to some service. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001315.html Read More... Posted Monday, December 14, 2009 4:23 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: backup, cloud