Interview with Kris Wenzel on EssentialSQL.com

EssentialSQL.com is a very useful resource for learning SQL Server.

As in the website homepage: “Now it is time to learn SQL in simple English.”
Kris would like to reach the following goals:
  • Get started in an easy to follow step-by-step manner.
  • Use reader’s time wisely (focusing on what is important to learn to get the most value from your time).
  • Answer the questions.
It’s an important contribute to the SQL Server community. Kris explains here why he’s started to write EssentialSQL.com.
I’ve found this interview very interesting. We’ve spoken about my favourite topics, like Source control on database and database unit testing. This is my job, everyday.
We’ve spoken also about worst practices I saw in my past experiences and then he asked me to give some suggestion to people who start to explore SQL Server.
Thus, if you have a couple of minutes, you can read my interview here.
Stay tuned! 🙂

Blame it on Connect

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Connect-logo-NewSome weeks ago I blogged about the discouraging signals coming from Connect and my post started a discussion that didn’t go very far. Instead it died quite soon: somebody commented the post and ranted about his Connect experience. I’m blogging again about Connect, but I don’t want to start a personal war against Microsoft: today I want to look at what happened from a new perspective.

What I find disappointing is a different aspect of the reactions from the SQL Server community, which made me think that maybe it’s not only Connect’s fault.

My post was in the headlines of SQL Server Central and was also included in the weekly links that Brent Ozar sends out with the Brent Ozar Unlimited newsletter, so it got a lot of views that day. Looking at my wordpress stats, I see that thousands of people read my post (to be fair, I can only say…

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SQL Saturday Parma – English Slide decks available to download

My SQL Saturday Parma slide decks are available to download on SlideShare.

The main topic of those presentations is database lifecycle management (DLM) on SQL Server.
Concepts: ALM/DLM, team work, differences between code and databases.
We’ve demonstrated the usage of the following tools: Visual Studio with SQL Server Data Tools, Red-Gate ed ApexSQL.
Second session: “Unit testing su database“.
Concepts: unit testing, database testing vs code testing.
We’ve demonstrated testing tools like Red-Gate SQL Test and Visual Studio Unit test projects, and the TSQLUnit framework.
Additionally, I’ve created a set of sample scripts with T-SQL and TSQLUnit on MSDN Code Samples.
Stay Tuned! 🙂

Sql Server: Backup all the databases of the instance

ahahahah, thank you Michael 🙂

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They told me (Alessandro Alpi), to don’t blog this 🙂 because there’s a lot of this stuff out there, but this my blog, and it is too cool when developing in load testing environment, and you need to backup, try load test data, and restore previous version, so forgive me about this:

Change the “C:_Databases_BackupDatabases” into your default BackupDirectory found in the instance facets, to avoid security problem.

DON’T USE THIS CODE IN PRODUCTION!!

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PASS SQL Saturday Parma Agenda now available!

PASS SQL Saturday Parma agenda is now available!

This is the timetable:
From        To
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10:00       11:00
11:15       12:15
12:30       13:30
13:30       14:30
14:30       15:30
15:45       16:45
16:45       17:00
17:00       18:00
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We will have three tracks:
  • BI, for Business Intelligence, BigData, xVelocity, etc.
  • DEV, for developers 
  • OPS, for operations and administration
Checkout the agenda here and organize your Saturday with the schedule builder!
 
Stay Tuned! 🙂