October 2008 - Posts

• 2008 PASS Summit Presentation Schedule

  This week the PASS Program Committee asked me to add another session to my schedule, so now is as good a time as any to share my PASS schedule with you. DBA-208 Using PowerShell to Get the Most out of SQL Server Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:15 AM - Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 2:41 PM by AllenMWhite | 4 Comments Filed under: Speaking

• Personnel Development (aka Training)

  This is probably not the best time to discuss personnel development, given the current economic conditions, but then again, maybe it is. How much does your company budget for training? I was very fortunate when I was with Advanstar Communications for Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:49 AM by AllenMWhite | 6 Comments Filed under: User Group Meetings

• What Is Your Change Management Process?

  Large(r) companies tend to have a defined process for implementing change in their data centers, but small(er) companies tend not to. (Your Mileage May Vary.) This makes sense, as large companies usually have more systems dependent on each other, and Read More... Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 10:07 PM by AllenMWhite | 3 Comments Filed under: Database Administration

• SQL Server 2008 SMO Library Changes

  While preparing for a presentation at PASS next month I tested my PowerShell script to back up user databases on a server. This script has been running flawlessly against SQL Server 2005 for a couple of years, so I was really surprised when PowerShell Read More... Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:35 PM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: SMO, PowerShell, SQL Server 2008

• SQL Momentum Roadshow Events - Columbus and Detroit

  Now that SQL Server 2008 is out and available, Microsoft is hosting a series of roadshow events around the country to highlight the new features of the product. The sessions are four hours, with the first half focused on DBA/Dev topics and the second Read More... Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:59 AM by AllenMWhite | 0 Comments Filed under: Speaking

• PASS Conference Stories

  My first PASS conference was in 2003 in Seattle, and PASS had as its SIG challenge a project. The people who showed up were divided up into teams, and were given a project that had a Dev, a DBA and a BI component, and had to have the project completed Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:47 PM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: User Group Meetings, Speaking

• [Ohio] A Day in the Life of the DBA 2008

  We are pleased to invite you to the October 9th 2008 meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group (ONSSUG). The meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:45 in the Cleveland Microsoft office. The address of the office is below: Microsoft Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 9:37 AM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, User Group Meetings, SQL Server 2008