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Randy Dyess

Randy Dyess is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and has been working with SQL Server for more than 15 years. Randy specializes in very large OLTP databases and deals primarily with performance tuning.
Email: rdyess@solidq.com

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Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 5: Knowing Your Data

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP, discusses the features of SQL Server commonly grouped under the title business intelligence (BI).

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 2: Under the Hood

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and SQL Server MVP, lifts the hood and takes a close look at SQL Server 2008, Microsoft’s latest release of its flagship database ...

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 4: What About Developers

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP, discusses the features of SQL Server 2008 that can be used by database developers to minimize the time needed to ...

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 8: How Do I Upgrade

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP discusses what you need to know to prepare to upgrade to SQL Server 2008.

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 3: Protecting Your Data

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP, discusses the database mirroring feature found in SQL Server 2008.

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 1: How Can I Secure Data

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP, discusses security in SQL Server 2008. You will learn the fundamentals of SQL Server 2008 data security and how you ...

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 7: Ready for your Environment

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP, discusses very large databases and how SQL Server 2008 is ready to be utilized in a large environment.

Video: SQL Server 2008 - Episode 6: 64 Bit and You

By Randy Dyess, 01/23/2012

Randy Dyess, with Solid Quality Mentors and a SQL Server MVP, discusses the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2008 and takes you through the advantages that a 64-bit version of SQL ...

How Do I upgrade to SQL Server 2008?

By Randy Dyess, 03/14/2008

SQL Server 2008 Boosts Built-in Encryption

By Randy Dyess, 02/28/2008

The new Extensible Key Management feature makes SQL Server’s built-in database encryption more secure by supporting third-party encryption providers, so that you can store keys ...