The first box of swag for SQL Saturday #41 in Atlanta has arrived. Thank You Manning Books!! There are more boxes of swag headed our way but this was the first to arrive. Manning has donated these 6 books to be given away. I kind of feel bad that they sent two copies of the [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Late March PASS VC Presentations
The PASS AppDev and DBA Virtual Chapters have even more free training lined up for you: Index Statistics March 23rd at 12:00 PM Eastern (GMT -4) Presenter: Josef Richberg Add to Calendar A semi-technical guide to understanding and using non-clustered indexes in your databases. Learn the benefits of covered indexes and their differences between SQL [...]
Atlanta PowerShell User Group -March Meeting
The inaugural meeting of the Atlanta PowerShell User Group will be held on Tuesday March 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. You can sign up now at http://powershellgroup.org/atlanta.ga. Please RSVP so we can get a head count. Our meeting will be held at the New Horizon’s training center at 211 Perimeter Center Parkway, Suite 200, [...]
Speaking at SQL Saturday #29 in Birmingham
I just received word that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday #29 in Birmingham Steel City. I’ll be speaking on two topics, PowerShell and Virtualization. I’ve got two new tricks that I’ve put together for the PowerShell session since #33 in Charlotte so we’ll see if I can squeeze them into my already overflowing [...]
Coding for the Weekend
I’ve mentioned that my company is doing a data center move in the near future and I’ve been building out some PowerShell scripts to get ready for that. Before we get there though we are having to rebuild one of our test environments from the ground up. When I told my coworker Shyam of my [...]
SQL Saturday #33 PowerShell Slide Deck
I’ve posted a copy of my slide deck that I used for my PowerShell sessions at SQL Saturday #33 in Charlotte. Anyone is welcome to use all or part of it if they would like to do they’re own PowerShell session. I’d love to hear any suggestions for improving it. I’m working on getting all [...]
MacGyver Meets TSQL2sDay
Please be aware that I haven’t had a chance to double-check the technical details of this post before the deadline so if you see an error please feel free to comment about it. The events happened years ago but it’s funny how history has a way of repeating itself. Because I have too few hours [...]
Early March 2010 PASS VC Presentations
Free Training from Virtual Chapters: AppDev: Jessica Moss on “Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles,” March 9, noon ET (GMT-5) DBA: Clifford Dibble“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management,” March 10, 12-1pm MT (GMT-7) Virtualization: “Microsoft Hyper-V” presented by Sylvia Vargas. March 16, noon ET (GMT-5) _____________________________________________________________________ Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles [...]
