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Speaking - Red Gate's SQL in the City
The great folks at Red Gate have invited me to join the festivities at the SQL in the City events in both Chicago on October 5, and in Seattle on November 5. In both cities I'll be presenting a session...
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Speaking - 24 Hours of PASS, Summit Preview Edition
There's so much to learn to be effective with SQL Server, and you have an opportunity to immerse yourselves in 24 hours of free technical training this week from PASS, via the 24 Hours of PASS event....
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24 Hours of PASS - PowerShell 101 for the SQL Server DBA
Thanks to everyone who came out for the session today. It was a lot of fun and I hope you had a great experience as well. I've attached the demo scripts and slide deck to this post, and I look forward...
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Scanning the Error Log with PowerShell
One of the most important things you can do as a DBA is to keep tabs on the errors reported in the error log, but there's a lot of information there and sometimes it's hard to find the 'good stuff'....
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Search For a Query in RDL Files with PowerShell
In tracking down poorly performing queries for clients I often encounter the query text in a trace file I've captured, but don't know the source of the query. I've found that many of the poorest...
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[Speaking] PowerShell at the PASS Summit
Next week is the annual PASS Summit , the event of the year for those of us in the SQL Server community. We get to see our old friends, make new friends, and learn an amazing amount about SQL Server,...
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PASS Summit 2012 Day One Keynote
Today is the official start to the 2012 PASS Summit and I'm honored to have a seat at the Blogger's Table again. This is a set of tables set up in the back of the keynote room for people who blog...
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PASS Summit 2012 Day Two Keynote
Summit day two is upon us and we're anticipating another exciting keynote. Nice video of international attendees at the start of the keynote focusing on the global community. Doug McDowell came out and...
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PASS Summit 2012 PreCon - DBA-298-P Automate and Manage SQL Server with...
On Tuesday I presented an all-day pre-conference session on using PowerShell to automate and manage SQL Server. It was a very full day and we had a lot of great questions. One discussion in Module 6...
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PASS Summit 2012 Women In Technology Luncheon
My final stint at the Summit Blogger's Table(tm) is for the annual WIT luncheon. I do appreciate the honor that PASS conferred on me by inviting me to the "table" for the event, it's been a lot of fun...
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Speaking - SQL Saturday 173, Washington DC
After a great time at the PASS Summit in Seattle I'll be once again presenting on PowerShell for SQL Server at SQL Saturday #173 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. On Friday, December 7 I'll be presenting my...
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T-SQL Tuesday #39: Managing your SQL Server Services with PowerShell
This T-SQL Tuesday is about using PowerShell to do something with SQL Server. Now, if you've read any of my blog posts you probably know I've been using PowerShell to do things with SQL Server for a...
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T-SQL Tuesday #41 - Presenting and Loving it!
For this T-SQL Tuesday Bob Pusateri asked us to share how we came to love presenting. Before I ever got involved in computing technology I had (and still have) a love for the theatre, specifically...
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New Article on the SQL Server 2012 Backup and Restore PowerShell Cmdlets
While I was on vacation last week in Scotland Simple Talk published a new article I wrote called Backup and Restore SQL Server with the SQL Server 2012 PowerShell cmdlets. Hope you have as much fun...
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Speaking - Tech Ed, Tech Ed, SSWUG, PASS
I feel like I've hit the speaker's lottery this year, starting with SQL Cruise Miami, and it just keeps getting better! After a great trip to SQL Bits I'm now preparing for my travel to New Orleans for...
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Tech Ed Demos for "Manage SQL Server System and Performance Data with...
This morning I presented my session Manage SQL Server System and Performance Data with PowerShell at Tech Ed NA in New Orleans. We had a good sized audience who were very responsive and had many great...
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Are We Losing a Standard (Edition) Data Recovery Technology?
One of the coolest technologies Microsoft released with SQL Server 2005 was Database Mirroring, which provided the ability to have a failover copy of a database on another SQL Server instance, and have...
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PASS Elections and Great Candidates
The candidates for the PASS Board of Directors are a great group of people, and I consider each one of them friends. Each one of them, if elected, will do a great job bringing their talent and...
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Fall 2013 IT/Dev Connections Sessions
This week I had the honor of presenting two sessions at the IT/Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas. My two sessions were Manage SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core with PowerShell and Manage SQL...
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The 2013 PASS Summit - Day 1
It's SQL Server Geek Week once again! Every year at the PASS Summit the SQL Server faithful descend on the city of choice for the annual Summit, and this year it's Charlotte, North Carolina. Once again...
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