December 7,
2013 – A day that shall live in infamy….. Ok, not that famous December 7 – in 1941,
when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.
This last Saturday was a day that will be remembered as a great entry
into the history books of SQLSaturday events!
I was down in DC with the sqlpeeps and sqlfamily, and turned out that
the skies cleared and was a dry day for an awesome gathering of SQL learning
and networking.
First thanks
goes out to Chris Bell, Matt Velic, Paul Rizza, and their merry band of
volunteers for organizing and planning the event! It was great to see everybody again, and was
quite a lineup of excellent speakers and subjects! It was great to see the #sqlfamily speakers, Tim
Radney, Mike
Walsh, Jason
Brimhall, Andy
Leonard, Brian
Moran, Wayne
Sheffield, Steve
Jones, Grant
Fritchey, David
Klee, Karen Lopez, Stacia
Misner, Melissa
AND Don Demsak, Joseph
D'Antoni, Kevin
Boles, Andrew
Kelly, Allan
Hirt, Ayman
El-Ghazali, Adam
Belebczuk, and hopefully I didn’t leave anyone out :-O But if I did,
I was glad to see you too :-).
So, it was
SQL in the Capitol, and I was talking about HealthySQL™! Yes, it was an appropriate topic in the midst
of all the health care discussions. I
was offering affordable health care for your SQL Servers. With a HealthySQL Server health check, I can
ensure that your SQL Servers are up-to-date with all its optimizations! Enough taglines, what I really was doing was
to spread the word about the importance to perform regular health checks of
your SQL Servers to ensure its optimal performance. What is a health check? It is an end-to-end performance assessment of
your SQL Server First how to create an initial baseline, how your SQL Server is
performing now (a capture of several metrics and stats), and be able to compare
it later to any changes or deviations from the norm. I walked you through the what, why, when and
how to determine if your SQL Servers are healthy, with some scripts,
demos, and DBA do’s and don’ts, if you want to ensure SQL Server health and
security, as well as job security!
I want to
thank all the folks who showed up at my session, and hope you all enjoyed! Now you’re all going to go back to the shop
and document and health check those servers!
If you need a little help, feel free to reach out to me via this blog,
email, twitter, or smoke signals, and I will be happy to perform my custom
15-point health check for your company’s server(s).
All was going
well, until my extended events demo decided to check into the ER 🙂
It was a new addition to this presentation, and just when a particular
person who walked in and let some gremlins loose – none other than the Extended
Event expert who happened to present
on that topic earlier in the day, in the same room! Coincidence?
I think not! I’ll get you for
this Brimhall, and you’re little x-events too! 😛 Next time, we'll get it down.
Overall, I
received very positive feedback, and it was a grand gathering near the halls of
power, when the best and brightest techies, the SQL Server community, descended
on Washington, DC at the Microsoft Memorial, er, I mean headquarters. 🙂
I look
forward to more discussions, blogs and presentations on my HealthySQL™
campaign, and to build awareness for the need to perform regular health checks,
and maintain your SQL Servers’ SQLFitness™
If you’d like
to learn more about HealthySQL™ send your inquiries my way! You can even post questions to twitter using the #healthysql hashtag. You’ll definitely start to feel a whole lot
better about managing your SQL Servers.
Please follow me on Twitter @Pearlknows,
and check out our web-site for all our available services at http://www.pearlknows.com.
Take our HealthySQL Challenge! Are you SQL Servers
healthy? How do you know for sure? Please contact us about our 15-point
Health Check report, which will identify areas for improvement, and allow for
best practice recommendations for your SQL Server(s). If we find NOTHING
wrong with your SQL Server, the report is FREE! Contact us as
pearlknows@yahoo.com
