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2012 started, isn’t it?

On 19^th of Jan­u­ary I together with a col­league of mine — Ivan Donev(twit­ter|blog) will be pre­sent­ing at Microsoft SQL Server User Group Bul­garia. We are going to be talk­ing about Pol­icy Based Man­age­ment in SQL Server:
– What is this?
– How can it help you man­age your envi­ron­ment and be a bet­ter DBA?
– What’s new in SQL Server 2012 and what can you expect from SQL Azure?
– What is EPM Frame­work and how can you use it in your envi­ron­ment?
– and more…

So, if you’re inter­ested in the sub­ject, hope to see you at 19:00 at Microsoft’s office.
(yes, i know that it’s going to be cold out­side, but it’s worth it! ) Read more

It is my 3^rd month as a SQL Server DBA at HP and boy what a months just! I am learn­ing a whole bunch of new things, I am sur­rounded by peo­ple who talk 24×7 for SQL Server and finally I can do all the things I know in the real world and see what is the dif­fer­ence between prac­tic­ing at home and doing the same things, but for a For­tune 500 company.

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Day 1 was great! I mean absolutely great, but it was tir­ing as well. My tired­ness got even big­ger, because of the traf­fic jam we were stuck in for more than 40 min­utes in our way back home. Hav­ing told this, imag­ine how mad the girl I called for a cof­fee was at me, when I kept her wait­ing for, as she said, almost 30 minutes!(Miss Grig­orova, if you’re read­ing this and I’m sure you are, you know how sorry I am! Will you watch The Smurfs with me? Please…). Any­way, after a 6-hour sleep, day 2 didn’t started that good. After the first ses­sion I was feel­ing as my brain was still not func­tion­ing the right way. Hope­fully, I got bet­ter, when a col­league of mine(who had a very lucky day that day — Ivel­lin Mollov(twit­ter|blog) told me that he is in the same sit­u­a­tion. It’s always great to hear that “you are not alone”, isn’t it? So… Read more

Today was a rainy day and you can­not say it was not! As usual I didn’t have an umbrella with me, so I “acci­den­tally” got very wet until I got to the Fac­ulty of Infor­mat­ics and Math­e­mat­ics a.k.a FMI, where was about to be held the next sem­i­nar from the series of sem­i­nars, which are orga­nized by the IT Lead­ers Acad­emy. So, in this post, you will be read­ing about what we talked about and what was the whole sem­i­nar all about.
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