Still no word from the nomination committee, I wish I had something to report. I have had an interesting conversation with Brent Ozar. He emailed me earlier this week and wanted to know what I was thinking when I applied. If I get on the ballot I will put our email exchange into a blog … Read more
I just put the finishing touches on a new custom monitor in Operations Manager. This monitor rolls up into the ‘Availability’ monitor for the SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 DB targets. The monitor will run a script that reads from the msdb database, joined to the master database. The idea is that we only want … Read more
Had my interview with the nominating committee yesterday. It lasted about forty-five minutes, and I thought it went well. I am not certain, but I believe there are about eight candidates right now. After the interviews are completed, the final candidates will be announced. Since the conference is less than two weeks away, I expect … Read more
Yep, my stickers and moo cards have arrived. I look forward to handing these out at PASS in two weeks. Drop me a tweet if you want to meet up to get one. Or, better yet, stop by … Read more
I finally got around to ordering some Bat Stickers, they should arrive in time for me to distribute them at PASS next month. I have no idea if anyone will want one or not, but I am certain that having this on the back of my laptop while presenting will stand out. … Read more
The 2008 PASS summit (www.sqlpass.org) will take place in Seattle this November. Your truly has been given the chance to present a talk at the conference. The title is “Operations Manager 2007 for the DBA”. It is essentially the same talk that I will be giving next Tuesday in NYC and … Read more
