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Thank you for joining the DB Best Team at SQL Saturday! Over 200 people stopped by our booth and participated in our Windows Phone raffle, the lucky winner was Theresa Iserman. Thank you for the great attendance of our sessions! If you missed Robert’s presentation please feel free to download the slides here. Dandy’s presentation on Power BI can be found here.     Register for our upcoming SQL Server Upgrade and Migration Seminar. We would also like to invite […]

Any organization wants to maintain control as much as possible over the data it possesses. Here at DB Best, Migrations from another Data Platform to SQL Server or Azure is part of the regular business that we do. Oracle and DB2 offer their take on RLS and now SQL Server has another feature that makes it easier for the transition. Row Level Security is currently in “Preview” on Azure SQL Databases and is scheduled to be part of the new […]

I will be speaking at SQL Sat 380 in NYC on the topic of Basic Performance Monitoring with Perfmon.  I have delivered this session many times and is usually well attended.  The session is geared for the person who has heard of Perfmon but not used it.  This is very much a 100 level offering. The last time that I was in NYC for a large SQL Server event was just about 10 years ago.  It was the “Get Ready […]

This post is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #66 which focuses on monitoring for the month of May. This month’s gracious host is Catherine Wilhelmsen (blog|@cathrinew). For our part in this blog event, I am going to focus on how to interpret and understand the errors from SQL Server’s built-in monitoring tools Replication Monitor. If you’ve ever had to deal with errors in Replication Monitor, your first experiences with it probably involved confusion. Sometimes the error messages are too generic and […]

Microsoft’s first Ignite conference is a fact, and it was AWESOME! If you like this blog, follow us on twitter: @DBBest_tech to stay up to date on our latest articles. Last week I (Dandy Weyn) had the great opportunity of being at Ignite as a staffer to the Microsoft booth for both Data Platform and Business Intelligence. Our very own DB Best’s Sudhir Gajre had the opportunity of presenting on Migrating Databases to SQL Server 2014, BRK3574: Database Migrations “Done […]

DB Best Technologies will be out in force at SQLSaturday #393 in Redmond, WA on Saturday, May 16 2015. I will be joined by fellow Certified Master Dandy Weyn (blog|@ILikeSQL). Dandy will be presenting Power BI – getting it right – a full walkthrough, and I will be presenting Diagnosing Performance with Wait Statistics. If you want to talk to us outside of our sessions, drop by the DB Best booth and say hello or ask a question. For me, […]

14 sessions I would recommend to anyone at Ignite. (for data platform and business analytics) I’ve been to a lot of conferences, so many that I can’t remember how many I’ve been at. Starting 14 years ago, I attended my READ MORE

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DB Best continues building a Center of Excellence with subject matter experts in various areas within our fast growing company. Our COE consists of certified and acknowledged professionals, such as Microsoft Certified Masters, Microsoft Certified Trainers and SQL Server MVPs, each with deep technical expertise in their field, comprising and supporting a team of 180+ professionals. Let us introduce you to the key members of the DB Best Center of Excellence with Data Platform and Business Intelligence expertise: Adi Cohen– […]

I recently installed my first deployment of Master Data Services (MDS). I installed the SQL Server 2014 (Enterprise Edition) MDS front-end on a new server with the intent to use an existing SQL Server 2014 (Enterprise Edition) database engine for the back-end. Unsurprisingly, I ran into some issues, and as luck would have it, they were not all well documented. I found some help online in places like Microsoft Connect and the TechNet Forums, but much of what I found […]

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft has published 4 new comprehensive guides for migrating to SQL Server 2014. SSMA 6.0 Detailed Technical White Papers: Guide to Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2014 and Azure SQL Database Guide to Migrating from Sybase ASE to SQL Server 2014 and Azure SQL DB Guide to Migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2014 and Azure SQL DB Guide to Migrating from DB2 to SQL Server 2014 and Azure SQL DB