It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL).  And see these throughout the day as I tweet out links of things I find interesting.  While these links aren’t the answer to life, the universe, and everything, they often share a few things about SQL Server and related technology topics that others may find useful. The links included in this summary are those prefixed with “Reading” and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to avoid spamming.  The content of the links usually pertain to SQL Server, technology, and career topics; which I think others would find useful.

The Most Popular “Reading” Link

This weeks most popular link last week is from a blog post written by Steve Jones (Blog | @way0utwest) about the DBA.  While the post title is the DBA being dead, that’s not what he’s talking about.  Rather it’s a changing role,one that has been changing as data platforms mature and will do so for pretty much ever.  Check out Steve’s post if you have the chance.

Reading: "The DBA is Dead" http://t.co/DcjL6va7kw #sqlserver #ohreallynow

— Jason Strate (@StrateSQL) May 21, 2014

Last week’s top 20 “Reading” Links

Along with the top link, here are the top twenty items relating to SQL Server, technology and careers that were shared last week.  If you missed them throughout the week, here’s the opportunity to get caught up on some items that other’s read after I linked them out.

1. The DBA is Dead [44 clicks]
2. What Not To Do With Hadoop [25 clicks]
3. Creating A Data Dictionary Has Never Been Easier [24 clicks]
4. Six Common Reasons People Give-up on their Goals (Plus What to do About it) [20 clicks]
5. The Scoop from SQL Server 2014 Beta Testers [18 clicks]
6. The Problems with Remote DBA Companies Today [17 clicks]
7. Book Review: Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer [15 clicks]
8. Memory and IO in Tempdb: SQL 2014 Improvement [15 clicks]
9. Refactoring Computer Engineer #Barbie [12 clicks]
10. Data Access for Highly-Scalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence [11 clicks]
11. Shrinking tempdb no longer prohibited [11 clicks]
12. Know When it’s Good Enough [11 clicks]
13. Most common wait stats over 24 hours and changes since 2010 [11 clicks]
14. Learning to listen [10 clicks]
15. 4 Lightweight Ways to Tell if a Database is Used [9 clicks]
16. Generating Concurrent Activity [9 clicks]
17. 5 Ways to Get People to Remember You (And Your Company) [7 clicks]
18. When is your interview? [7 clicks]
19. Starting to Use #Powershell [6 clicks]
20. Last week in Azure SQL Database – Part 5 – Wrapup [5 clicks]

Other Stuff Shared

Of course, no week would be complete without a few off-topic links.  These have nothing to do with technology or your career, but they are interesting and worth a second look.

1. Police, tickets and the perils of good intentions [44 clicks]
2. 21 Best GIFs of All Time of the Week [38 clicks]
3. Lance Armstrong Finds ‘Missing Testicle’ During Cards Against Humanity Game [32 clicks]

Got something you think I should read and share, leave a comment below.  Also, if you want to see all of the links that were tweeted out last week?