SQL Server Toolset – Free Beta
(and possibly win a WII) – Have you seen the new Idera Toolset? It’s nothing short of an incredible assortment of tools for your SQL Server. There are *24* different tools in this set and you can test it out – from diagnostic tools to security checks to change management and much more. Take a look, provide feedback and get entered in the drawing, all while breaking in your new tools. Get more information here.
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This show features more tips for Accidental DBAs. This series is meant to help people that are only really working with databases part time and just need a few tips and ideas about how to do a little bit at a time. Also, the 60-second SQL Server tip of the day, noise and news in the industry, events, the newsletter and discussion list watches and a lot more.
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Reader Feedback – Matrix’d In Databases?
Several people wrote in with comments on the concept/idea of your data matrix’d to different storage mediums. Here are just a few of the comments.
Jeremy: "You know, this is huge.
For far too long it has been a challenge to inter-connect different RDBMSs’ running on different OSs’ in different parts of the world. Having the ability to seamless interconnect these will decrease the level of effort a great deal, imo. While it may become a different role in the app/admin/database world, the impact that a concept like this could have is immense.
Imagine the task of creating an entire environment of SOA endpoints to handle this concept versus having the data available in the same “format” regardless of its source. Wow!
With a concept like this will come an increasing amount of security concerns I believe. While there will be many challenges along the way, at the end of the day this is what people are doing today with many differing technologies."
Conrad: "If this “cloud” thing were remote, then a big factor would be bandwidth to get to it.
We’d only use it for data that needed to be remote for some reason, such as critical, low-volume backups. Another use would be something like hosted CRM systems with distributed clients.
If the “cloud” could be inside our network, then …. I don’t see how “clouding” the data storage would be better than the typical architecture we have now."
Rex: "I am wondering what the product is actually supposed to do. Do you have any "examples" of this? Isn’t this a warehouse? And wont all the same problems of creating a warehouse making decisions on how the data relates, exceptions, etc) still apply? "
More to come…
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