IKM assessments are what they sound like. Assessments of employee knowledge and skills used prior to hiring, during training, and at the end of the job. There are 30 – 50 multiple-choice questions, ...

I'm scrambling to catch up on blogging, after two days of meetings in Redmond with lots of different Microsoft teams. (More from those meetings coming up soon here on the blog. Stay tuned....) ...

SQL Server Magazine highlighted this among other great free tools and this one caught my eye. The tool used to be called SQLIOStress and has been upgraded to more accurately reflect I/O patterns of ...

Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...

I need to torture test a SQL cluster and heavily stress CPU, memory, and disk. The boxes are 8 way SMP 833's with 4GB of memory each. I need to do this relativily quickly, and I am looking for the ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redgate Software announced today the introduction of a new and comprehensive cross-database DevOps tool, which allows development teams to include test data ...