I presented two sessions this weekend in Birmingham AL at SQL Saturday 81.  I was in the first slot of the day with my “You Inherited a Database, Now What” session.  The room was pretty full so I was excited.  I had a great group that was very interactive.

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This has been a great week for me.  I had a lot of new faces come out for the Columbus GA SQL Users Group meeting Tuesday night as well as being notified that I have been made a PASS Regional Mentor for South Central US. Mark Ginnebaugh sent out the… Read more

A new feature has been added to SQL Saturday.  Now when you register for an event you can build your schedule on the website.  I used it tonight to build my schedule for SQL Saturday 81.  This will be a huge help for attendees in preparing for their big… Read more

SQL Saturday 81 is coming up this weekend in Birmingham AL.  This will be my 5th SQL Saturday to speak at.  So far I have spoken in Tampa FL, Columbia SC, Jacksonville FL and Pensacola FL.  I still get nervous getting up in front of some many people to speak,… Read more

For me so far it has been the speaker selection.  Getting sponsors didn’t prove to be difficult, we have a great market being we are Atlanta GA.  Locating a venue to hold the event presented a few challenges but again we are a large area so there are several venue… Read more

More on my recent PowerShell project.  I recon I have taken on the challenge to handle this entire request using Posh.  It started out just moving folders based on the folder name that included the date in format MMDDYY.  Next was having to stop services before moving the folders.  After… Read more

A recent project I was working on required me to move folders from a staging location to a processing location.  I found that PowerShell was the easiest way to accomplish that.  After getting that part of the project working a new requirement came up.  In order to move the folders… Read more

I just had my first encounter with having to write a PowerShell script.  The request seemed pretty harmless when I originally got it.  The request was much like others I had gotten in the past where I needed to check to make sure that data had been loaded and kick… Read more

Why am I attending Kevin Kline’s pre-con on “Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2” at SQL Saturday #89 in Atlanta on September 16^th?  For starters I am a production DBA.  Sure I create SSRS reports and build ETL processes with SSIS and the like, but… Read more

Recently I answered a question on AskSSC that I thought I would create a quick blog about.  Someone had asked if there was an easy way to run SELECT * FROM SYS.PROCEDURES on every database.  I immediately thought of the undocumented stored procedure sp_msforeachdb.  I posted a response and gave… Read more

On June 8th we announced SQL Saturday 89.  The call for speakers went out to all those who had submitted sessions at a previous SQL Saturday, an alert went out to sponsors and the event was live.  Immediately emails started coming in, people started registering and sessions were being submitted.… Read more