I just wanted to take a quick moment to let everyone know that yesterday I received the great news that I will be speaking about PowerShell at the 2010 PASS Summit! Here’s what my session will be: The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for the Busy DBA You’ve heard it said, “If you have to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘SQL Server’
Early May PASS VC Presentations
Next week is the 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008 R2 PASS but before we get there the Virtual Chapters of PASS have some free training on tap for us: _____________________________________________________________ “You Got XML In My Database? What’s Up With That?” May 11th 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Add to Calendar Presenter: Stuart Ainsworth A brief [...]
Picking up a New Hammer
The other day I was answering a question in the forums on PowerGUI.org that I thought would be a quick answer. The only problem was that I had my T-SQL hammer in my hand and not my PowerShell hammer. When I read the question I thought of a way to solve the problem using T-SQL [...]
Schedule Posted for SQL Saturday #41 – Sort of…
We’ve decided to try a different approach to SQL Saturday and get attendees to vote on what sessions they would like to see so that we can use that as a guide to figure out which size room to put sessions in. You can find the schedule as we currently have it configured here. Once [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Big Were Last Nights Backups?
Last week one of the Sys Admin’s asked me “How big were last night’s backups?” I was like “Why are you asking me? We drop all of the backup files onto one of your arrays so why don’t you tell me.” Background: We’re doing a Data Center move and they wanted to move a copy of all [...]
SQL Saturday #41 – Atlanta
SQL Saturday is coming to Atlanta on April 24th. Well be doing this at the Microsoft building again so capacity is limited to just 250 people. Right now we’ve got the call for speakers open so if you have a session that you’d like to submit we’d love to have you. If any out [...]
PASS AppDev, Virtualization, and DBA VCs Present
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 [...]
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 [...]
