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T-SQL Tuesday article discussing Interviews and Hiring. Have a look at at some insights I have gained over my years and the interviews that I have participated in.

TechEd 2014 in Australia now has a new format. This year there is twice the event, Starting in Melbourne and followed by in Sydney. Pre-register is now available.

Following on from my post last week on SQL Server 2014 : What’s New I am having a little deeper look into the Buffer Pool Extension (,strong>BPE). The introduction of the BPE, which is available in Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition allows you to extend your available memory by providing a hybrid buffer pool to help reduce I/O bottlenecks as long as you have access to an SSD.

With the release of SQL Server 2014 on Aril 1 2014, there are some new things you need to know about this version of SQL Server. In this article I am going to introduce these new features.

With the recent release of SQL Server 2014 on April 1 2014, there are some things that we need to know and be aware of to allow us to make any decisions about our potential upgrade path to this new version. Reviewing the SQL Server 2014 licensing datasheet we can see the changes we need to know about.

SQL Server's AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a very resilient way of providing High-availability for SQL Server databases, but there are inevitable limits to their capacity. How many database can you reasonable add? it depends on the resources available and the workload, but you can come up with a reasonable estimate as Warwick explains

SQLSaturday is coming to Australia again in 2014. This time it kicks off with SQLSaturday #296 in Melbourne on Saturday 5th April. If you are in the Melbourne area and would like some free SQL Server training from some MVP’s, MCM’s and speakers who are well regarded in the SQL Server community then register now.

In this post I am going to take you through my journey to becoming a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master.

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups can be pretty easy to create and configure but unless you have designed your environment you may hit the following error when trying to create the Availability Group with the Wizard. To find out more read on ……

Database Mirroring was first introduced in SQL Server 2005. This technology is still available as a viable option to meet your High Availability or Disaster Recovery requirements.