In April 0f 2012 I was fortunate enough to be asked to become Linchpin People LLC’s first ever TeamMate. (blog). I was really cool to become part of a great group of guys like Andy Leonard (blog | twitter), Brian Moran (blog | twitter) and Mike Walsh (blog | twitter). Over the past year Linchpin […]
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2013
PASS Summit 2013 will be my fifth Summit to attend. I wrote a blog post about how different my fourth Summit experience as from the previous three. Summit 2012 was all about networking and offered my first experience to speak to a crowd. Idera allowed me to present two sessions at their booth on backup […]
SQL Community Speakers – Why We Do It
I started this post over a year ago and have just now come back around to finish it. Over the years I have been asked about a few misconceptions about speakers for SQL Saturday’s. Over the past several years as I have been involved with speaking and organizing SQL Saturday’s. Like many I love hanging […]
SQL Server Installation Date
I have been working on a project recently to collect system metrics of a SQL Server environment. One of the items that came up that would like to collected is the date that SQL Server was installed on the server. In doing a quick search on where this property would be located I found that sys.server_principals […]
What is Page Life Expectancy (PLE) in SQL Server
Being a production DBA means having to quickly look at a SQL Server and diagnose issue with it. We know that a quick look at perfmon or task manager can tell us of high CPU usage, but what is a good way to quickly look at proper memory usage. Checking out the Page Life Expectancy […]
SSIS training for a cause
On Thursday March 14th (PI Day) in Duluth GA, Audrey Hammonds and Julie Smith will put on a spectacular SSIS training event to benefit the Cloverleaf School of Atlanta. Both Audrey and Julie are SQL Server MVP’s and have given a countless amount of their time to the SQL Server Community over the years. Visit their […]
How to break a high end de-duplication backup device
I have been working with a client recently who purchased a nice top of the line de-duplication backup device in order to synchronize backups between two data centers. This device is very nice in how it will de-duplicate data to reduce storage needs and also compress the data. It will then synchronize the data to […]
SQL Backup and Recovery – new distribution
I recieved an email today from my publisher Joes 2 Pros that my book was now available on Barnes and Noble’s website in addition to Amazon in print and Kindle. This is very exciting. In just three months SQL Backup and Recovery has sold nearly 500 copies. I am still in awe that my name […]