Sep 28 2010
Details for tonight’s West Michigan SQL Server Users Group Meeting are listed below. Robert Davis of Microsoft will be presenting on Advanced Tuning Techniques. Robert is a Sr. Production DBA and Operations Engineer at Microsoft and has worked with SQL Server for 10+ years. He is a certified Master in SQL Server 2008. Robert is [...]
Aug 9 2010
Anyone who even casually reads this blog knows all about SQL Cruise by now. If not, then there is an every-growing wealth of information about this endeavor that Brent Ozar (Web|Twitter) and I just produced last week. We had an amazing cross-section of cruisers on this first SEA-QL training event: senior-level consultants, experienced DBAs, and the [...]
Aug 6 2010
I’m sitting in the Fort Lauderdale airport with so many thoughts milling through my head over what a success our first ever SQL Cruise has been. I’m doing my best to avoid any boat or water-related puns whatsoever (we’ve heard them all over the last 4 days – trust me.) This will in no way, [...]
Jul 31 2010
Though my official last day at work is August 9th (exit interview, et. al.) My last day doing production work was yesterday. I am tethered to the on-call rotation until noon while my replacement returns from a trip to Italy. What the hell, I’ve never been to Italy! I’ve thought long and hard about how [...]
Jul 27 2010
Tonight is the July meeting for the West Michigan SQL Server Users Group (WMSSUG). Details are below, including information on our speaker this month, none other than Robert B. Davis aka @SQLSoldier! The meeting is being presented virtually so feel free to attend even if you aren’t a member. Robert is a Sr. Production DBA [...]
Jul 21 2010
Yesterday, Brent Ozar announced in a post on SQLCruise.com that we, along with our sponsors: SQLSentry, Quest Software, MSSQLTips.com, and Red Gate Software, are giving away a netbook each day of the cruise that sets sail on 8/2/2010. Each Cruiser, as we’ve come to affectionately call them has a 1/15 chance of winning one. We are developing very [...]
Jul 15 2010
<Cliché> Life works in mysterious ways </Cliché> <Cliché> All things happen for a reason </Cliché> However you slice it the last week has been quite a wild one for me and my family. It all came to be in the series of two emails received less than four hours apart from one another. The first was an email [...]
Jul 12 2010
It’s no secret that Louis Davidson and I are working on a book for Red Gate on Dynamic Management Views. Good news is that we’re close… oh so close. In the meantime Red Gate has published a DMV Starter Pack that includes exerpts from our book along with content from our Technical Editor: fellow SQL [...]
