SQL Community Support

I have blogged before about my appreciation for the SQL community mainly within the PASS organization as that is what I was most familiar with.  I have been active with SQL Saturday, PASS Summit, and my local PASS Chapter for the past two years and have benefited greatly by the generosity of the SQL Community.  […]

SQL Saturday #70

This blog is long overdue about my journey to Columbia SC for SQL Saturday #70.    I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at this event and to be able to attend the speakers dinner.  I had a great time getting to meet and spend time with so many SQL folks.  Geoff Hiten, […]

SQL Saturday #62

I had the honor of traveling to Tampa Florida this past weekend and presenting a session to a great group of people.  I first need to mention what a great job the facilitators did organizing this event.  Jose Chinchilla (@sqljoe)and Pam Shaw (@PamShaw) are who I worked with the most but there were countless other […]

What PASS means to me.

I first heard of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) in connection with the PASS Summit.  I had a several co-workers who had attended the PASS Summit before.  Several years later we had a local PASS Chapter started in my town and I started attending the meetings when I could.  It was really great to […]

Checking Backups

Over the past two years I have acquired quite a few database servers that I am responsible for.  We have many standards among the database group I am a part of, things such as standard drive configurations (drive for data files, log files, tempdb, and backup),  lock down scripts, maintenance jobs, etc.  Over time I […]

Inheriting a neglected DB

About a month ago I was in a position to take over support of a large database and handle the upgrade from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.  The database is approx 800 GB in size.  Not the largest DB in the world, but the largest for the company I work for.  Upon taking over the […]