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• September 12 in San Fran

  Just a reminder that I will be speaking at the SF UG SQL Server User Group on Sep 12. Here is a link with all of the details. If you are in the area, It would be great to see you! Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:04 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Community, Education, Events, PASS, Social Networking, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQL 2012, SQL Community, User Group Meetings, VM

• Comparing Standard Editions of SQL Server

  Recently, I've been speaking with customers about upgrading SQL Server. At times, some customers have a lot of Standard Edition SQL Server 2005 / 2008 / 2008R2 in their organization and they want to see the features they get when upgrading to SQL Server Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:00 AM by RickHeiges | 10 Comments Filed under: New Features, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQL 2012, Upgrade

• Rick Review: SQLTeach - SQL345 - 10-Mar-2010 - Kimberly Tripp

  SQLTeach (Part of the DevTeach Conferences in Canada) has enjoyed success for many years. I enjoyed the opportunity to speak at and attend SQLTeach at various times over the years. Since SQLTeach is part of DevTeach, the "feel" of the event is very different Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:17 AM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Conferences, Education, Events, Performance, Review, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQL Server Performance

• SQL Server 2000 Still Strong, but Diminishing

  I presented a webcast on Wednesday on SQL Server Consolidation. As with many of my sessions (both physical and virtual), I like to ask several questions. This is NOT scientific, but it is anecdotal. Poll Question #1: Do you have SQL Server 2000 STILL Read More... Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 4:48 PM by RickHeiges | 2 Comments Filed under: Events, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, Upgrade

• Turning the corner on Upgrading from SQL Server 2000

  Last month, I spoke at a SQL Server Firestarter event in Charlotte. With just about every session that I speak at or webcast that I do since 2006, I always ask for a show of hands on two questions. The first is "How many people here are running SQL Server Read More... Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:46 AM by RickHeiges | 1 Comments Filed under: Education, Events, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, Upgrade

• Updated Support Policy for SQL Server on VMs

  As virtualization grows stronger in the marketplace, the question of SQL Server performance and support on Virtual Machines appears more often. Bob Ward has a great post here . Enjoy! Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:27 AM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: KB, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, VM

• IMTC Presentation Posted

  Earlier this year, I was fortunate to visit Dublin, Ireland to speak at the Irish Microsoft Technical Conference (IMTC). Chuck Boyce from www.SQLServerDVD.com was there recording and streaming sessions. He was unable to stream my session live, but he Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:56 PM by RickHeiges | 1 Comments Filed under: Community, Conferences, Education, Events, Express, SQL 2005, SQL Community

• Recent Mags

  I get several more "generic" IT mags sent to my home. I usually get them in an attempt to keep up with what is going on in the outside world. Typically, I look at the lead story and find a nugget or two in the rest. In my recent issue of TechNet magazine, Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 3:13 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Education, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQL Server Performance

• Risky Business

  Whenever I do a webcast or presentation, I always ask the audience to indicate where their organization is in relation to running SQL Server 2000 or running SQL 2005. Recently, in an audience of about 40 people, more than half of the audience still had Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:47 AM by RickHeiges | 4 Comments Filed under: SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, Upgrade

• Some things don't change - DB Snapshots & Backups of Snapshots

  Again, I wanted to blog about something that still does not change between 2005 and 2008. At a recent conference, there were some great questions/ideas that should make it to Connect if they haven't already. When DB Snapshots were first introduced, one Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:40 AM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: High Availability, SQL 2005, SQL 2008

• In case you did not hear, PASS Call for Speakers is now open!

  In the latest PASS Community Connector, there is a call for Speakers for this year's summit in Seattle in November. If you have never been to Seattle in November, it really makes you want to learn more about SQL Server in the breakout sessions. ;-) But Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 8:39 AM by RickHeiges | 2 Comments Filed under: Community, Conferences, Education, Events, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQL Community, User Group Meetings

• Get Ready for SQL Server 2008!

  On Jan. 24, there is a FREE virtual conference focused on SQL Server 2008. This is not just a webcast that you can view online. The sessions are scheduled at specific times with Live Q&A following the session from the speakers. Grab one of your SQL Read More... Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:13 AM by RickHeiges | 1 Comments Filed under: Community, Conferences, Education, Events, Katmai, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQL Community

• Buy the first 32-bits, get the second for FREE

  I spoke at the Charlotte SQL Server User Group last night. Will Sweeny confirmed that MSFT will continue to offer the free trade-out to 64-bit licensing from 32-bit. In other words, if you upgraded your 32-bit SQL 2000 to 32-bit SQL 2005 and are considering Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:14 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Community, Licensing, SQL 2005, SQL Community, User Group Meetings