It’s official, I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #39 on April 24th in New York City. My talk will be on SQL Server 2008 Audit and I am gearing it for people that are not familiar with that feature of SQL 2008. I’ve been to SQL Saturday’s before, I’ve been to Manhattan before, and … Read more
I wanted to give a big thanks to Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) and Buck Woody (blog | twitter) for writing the forewords to my book. I put them on their own page at http://dbasurvivor.com, as well as posted a blog entry for them. I’m not sure I could ever thank them for taking the … Read more
Today I got home and found a package on the steps…in the rain. The box was addressed to me, had yellow police tape across the top, and a green sticker that said ‘AUTHORS COPIES’. I brought the box into the house and eventually opened it. You can get more of an idea how I felt … Read more
I had a new tip go live today over at MSSQLTips, it is on backup compression and you can read more about it by going here. Backup compression is a feature offered with the Enterprise version of SQL 2008. After having native compression available in Sybase ASE for years I was happy to see that … Read more
There has been a lot of blog chatter in the past week regarding the PASS Summit Survey. I won’t bother pointing you to each and every post and comment that has been made, as Jack Corbett has already done a great job of that. What I want to do is tell the PASS Community why … Read more
I had two tips go live this past week over at MSSQLTips, both with regards to the SQL Server Audit feature in SQL 2008. The first tip shows how to enable SQL Server Audit. The second tip shows how to use the AUDIT_CHANGE_GROUP to monitor changes to your audit configurations. Some people would call that … Read more
