Hello folks. Even more free training is coming your way in February from the PASS Virtual Chapters. At least 3 of our chapters have scheduled training sessions I want to let you know about. More press on these should be available in the next week. I can’t speak for the other VCs but I know those of [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Free Training from PASS Virtual Chapters
We’ve got some great free training coming up this week from the AppDev and DBA Virtual Chapters of PASS. I personally am really looking forward to “SQL Server Consolidation: How to decide on the right approach (between DB, VMs, Instance)?” It sounds like a really good session to me Please note that the “Defensive [...]
First Session Down, Second One This Saturday
Well my first public presentation is in the bag. It was easier than I thought, got good reviews but not without glitches: Average score was a 4.1 ( out of 5 ) Some items were missed during prep. I forgot to go back to the slide deck and the end. No blog post before the presentation [...]
Presenting at SQL Saturday #32 in Tampa
Tomorrow I am presenting to a non-captive audience at SQL Saturday #32 in Tampa. I’ve done presentations on the wonderfulness of SQL Server before but this will be the first time where the people have 6 other great options to learn about SQL Server. I’m not used to competing for audience! My talk isn’t directly about SQL [...]
Project 52
Before I even started this year I knew that I was going to try and hold myself to putting out at least 52 blogs this year. Then I noticed that Jeremiah Peschka posted on this thing called “Project 52”. Since I’m already holding myself to that goal – even though I failed to list it [...]
Lunch-n-Learn #01: SQL Server 2005 Features
Yesterday I did a quick Lunch-n-Learn here at my company on a few SQL Server 2005 features and this post is just a follow-up to remind everyone what we saw and where you can find those features. I will try to still make this useful for those of you who didn’t attend. 0: To make [...]
T-SQL Tuesday #002 A Puzzling Situation: Max Server Memory
Today’s post about changing your Max Server Memory setting is to answer the call from Adam Machanic about Puzzling Situations . A couple weeks before I headed out to the 2009 PASS Summit I encountered a puzzler of my own. One of our servers issued an alert that it had an extremely low Page Life Expectancy [...]
Goals for 2010
It’s that time of year so here’s a quick blog post so that I can track how well I achieve my goals for 2010 My goals for 2010 are pretty simple. Spend more time with my daughter Finish reading my PowerShell In Action book Help run and market a very successful year of the App [...]
