Spring time means tuning up the lawn mower, digging out the pruning shears, and testing the sprinklers (at least in Utah, where we can’t rely on Mother Nature to water our yards).
I take a certain amount of pride in having a great-looking lawn, and achieving that without using one of those lawn care companies. As […]
Spring may be only weeks away, officially, but the weather is plenty chilly in North Dakota. And Fargo, North Dakota, is where Jared Kirkpatrick, our newest SQL consultant, finds himself this week.
People go to Fargo all the time. Don’t they? But for Jared, this trip has involved some serious weather whiplash. When he departed his […]
Randy Knight, MCM and founder & president of SSG, has been a frequent participant at SQL happenings, primarily SQLSaturday events.
But what Randy did earlier this year was strong work: He spoke at nine straight SQLSaturday events and then followed that up with an appearance at the 2014 PASS Summit.
With a performance like that, Randy has earned […]
Last week we recognized Jason Brimhall for being named a SQL Server MVP. This week, it’s TJay Belt’s turn. TJay is the third SSG consultant we would like to recognize for his achievement of this honor.
To reiterate our sentiment from last week, when a consultant is busy with community ventures, there is seldom any recognition for […]
Here at SQL Solutions Group we strive for excellence with our consultants. We also encourage our consultants to be mindful and involved of the SQL Community. It is important to us that we have individuals striving to help within the community in whatever capacity is possible to them. For some of our consultants this means […]
I’m the non-technical marketing guy at SSG. In order to help the team actually market our services, I’ve had to educate myself a little…okay, a lot. I’m learning about MCMs, the utility of scripts, and where to find a SQL Saturday event anywhere in the world.
I’m also getting familiar with industry trends. Along the way […]
The case study below was submitted by Derek Borgert, Chief Technology Officer at BROWZ, LLC
Description of BROWZ and SQL Server usage environment:
BROWZ is a third-party compliance SAAS company. We use SQL Server as our backend database and also use SQL Reporting Services as our reporting engine.
Why did BROWZ choose SQL Solutions Group for its database needs?
It was […]
Do a Google search for “the DBA” and one of the top auto-fill results will be “…is dead.” In recent months there has been a flurry of articles on the idea. If enough people blog about a subject, does that make it true?
We don’t think so.
This is the digital age and data is the coin of […]
A quick glance at our Events page shows that SQL Solutions Group is committed to supporting PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) events, including regular involvement with SQLSaturdays around North America. We love these chances to meet, learn from, and interact with our industry colleagues.
For those of our team who frequently speak at SQLSaturday events […]
A new report from Forrester Research, Inc., “Outsourcing Database Administration Saves Money, Improves IT Productivity” concludes that moving the DBA function to a third-party provider is the way to go for almost all businesses.
Forrester states the problem thus:
Although DBMS technology has improved in automation over the years, provisioning and administering databases for application development remains […]
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