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Kevin Kline is a renowned database expert and software industry veteran currently serving is the Director of Engineering Services at SQL Sentry, a leading vendor of database and business intelligence tools. A Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2004, Kevin was a founding board member and former president of PASS. He has written or co-written tweleve books including the best-selling SQL in a Nutshell.  Kevin contributes monthly columns to SQL Server Pro and DBTA magazines.  Kevin is a noted trainer and thought leader on IT leadership skills, database management technology and practices, and SQL Server performance tuning and optimization.  Kevin is a top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide. He is on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn at @kekline and blogs at http://KevinEKline.com.

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Cheaters Never Win, Even in TPC Benchmarks 06 May 2013
In this portion of the series on database benchmarking, I want to tell you about one of my favorite aspects of the TPC benchmarks – CHEATING.

Use TPC Database Benchmarks to Save Money 29 Apr 2013
Today, I would like to give you a primer on how to read the benchmark reports that are published by the major database and hardware vendors.

Read the New TPC Database Benchmarking Series 22 Apr 2013
Introduction to TPC Database Benchmarks Let’s talk about database application benchmarking. This is a skill set which, in my opinion, is one of the major differentiators between a journeyman-level DBA and a true master of the trade. In this article published in my monthly column at Database ...

PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) Recap 15 Apr 2013
Hear about the latest announcements at the PASS Business Analytics Conference and from the renown keynote speaker and author of "Freakonomics", Dr. Steven Levitt.

The All-New ‘Database Lifecycle Management” is available on MSDN 05 Apr 2013
The Database Lifecycle Management is an MSDN curated content view providing a single location to find many of the best solutions for common customer tasks in Microsoft SSDT, SSMS, and SQL Database.