Well it isn’t quite over for me just yet, I still have a flight home tomorrow and can’t wait to get home and hug my wife and kiddo’s. I have to commend Wes and his crew for pulling off a great event. The location was great and not to difficult to find, the rooms were […]
SQL Saturday 97 starts in 7 hours
I flew into Austin Texas today and got to spend time with a lot of great people. The journey started in ATL with Thomas LaRock and myself being on the same flight. When we landed in Austin we were graciously picked up by Amy Muehleman and driven to the hotel that a large group of […]
SQL Saturday 97 Bound
Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX with some awesome speakers. Wish me luck, when I leave Austin I hope that many more TempDB’s are optimized.
The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts which look great with a pair of slacks. Today I work my speaker shirt from SQL Saturday #81 (Birmingham AL). I was shopping this evening at a local supermarket when a young guy came up […]
Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and find myself having to look up the syntax most of the time. I guess it is one of those things that if you don’t use it often enough you don’t commit it to memory. So […]
SQL Saturday #97 – Austin TX
In less than a week I will make the trip out to Austin TX to speak at my 7th SQL Saturday this year. I am really excited about this trip. There are several speakers I am looking forward to hanging out with and getting to know better. This is perfect timing as the Summit is […]
KB2463332 failed to install
This morning I was working on getting all new inherited SQL Servers patched to current levels of service packs when one particular server was failing on patching the database engine itself. A quick google search revealed articles tips that someone may have deleted the c:windowsinstaller contents. That wasn’t my case. After reviewing the summary.txt file […]
SQL Saturday 89 has come and gone!
All the planning, stressing, and freaking out about SQL Saturday #89 came to and end this past weekend. We had a very successful event with 314 attendees, over 30 speakers, lots of volunteers, and some awesome sponsors. This was the ATL areas 4th SQL Saturday and the largest yet. The location of the event and […]