This Wednesday, May 19th, PASS will be hosting their second 24 Hours of PASS event. The first event last September was quite successful. So successful, in fact, that when PASS decided to do it again my first thought was about how difficult it is for sequels to be as successful as the original. For example, … Read more
Welcome to another week of SQL University. This week’s discussion will revolve around the various tools we use in order to get our jobs done. We all have our favorite weapons of choice for various tasks and I will do my best to walk you through what I feel is a natural progression for DBAs. … Read more
A wise man once said “praise publicly, criticize privately.” This week we saw a handful of blog posts and associated comments regarding the PASS Summit survey results. If you review the posts and comments I think you would find them more along the lines of “criticize publicly, remain silent privately”, because that’s how I feel … Read more
I had an amazing time at the SQL Saturday event in New York City this past weekend. I learned new things, met new people, and ate an olive wrapped in a piece of bacon. What more could you want from a PASS event? I arrived on Friday evening and attended the speaker party that night. … Read more
Since I have been railing on SQL Azure lately, I thought I could share with you some of the videos you can watch for free over at MSDN. In case you were not aware, there is a LOT of free content over at MSDN and I am trying to utilize it more and more these … Read more
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming SQL Saturday event in NYC this coming weekend. The title of my talk is ‘SQL Server 2008 Audit’ and it is as exciting as it sounds, trust me. I am bringing along some giveaways: two copies of my book, one copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management, and … Read more
