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• Speaking at SQL Saturday 61 in Washington DC

  The organizers of SQL Saturday #61 in DC (actually Reston, VA) created an Advanced DBA/Dev track for their event, which I think is cool. Both of the presentations I'll be doing there on Saturday are in that track. (In fact, they're the first two sessions Read More... Posted Thursday, December 2, 2010 10:34 AM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Speaking, SQL Server 2008

• PASS PowerShell/SQL Server PreCon

  PowerShell is an amazing tool to help you automate your administrative processes. There are a lot of books and online sources to help you learn PowerShell, but how do you learn how to use it with SQL Server? Simple, just sign up for my PASS PreCon session. Read More... Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM by AllenMWhite | 4 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, PowerShell, SMO, Speaking, SQL Server 2008, User Group Meetings

• Speaking at SQL Saturday Nashville

  SQL Saturday - Nashville, TN, August 21, 2010 I'll be presenting two sessions this Saturday (August 21, 2010) in Nashville, TN - XQuery Basics and Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell . The event takes place at Nashville State Community Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:05 AM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Speaking, SQL Server 2008

• TechEd 2010 Followup

  Last week I presented a couple of sessions at Tech Ed NA in New Orleans. It was a great experience, even though my demos didn't always work out as planned. Here are the sessions I presented: DAT01-INT Administrative Demo-Fest for SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Read More... Posted Sunday, June 13, 2010 3:25 PM by AllenMWhite | 4 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, PowerShell, Speaking, SQL Server 2008 Attachment(s): TechEd2010.zip

• Speaking at SQLSaturday #33 in Charlotte

  I'll be presenting two sessions this Saturday (March 6, 2010) in Charlotte - Automate SQL Server Administration with PowerShell and Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell . The event takes place at the Microsoft Charlotte Offices on 8050 Microsoft Read More... Posted Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:33 AM by AllenMWhite | 0 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, PowerShell, Speaking, SQL Server 2008, User Group Meetings

• Speaking about Indexing

  I'll be presenting two sessions this week (February 9 and 11, 2010), both on SQL Server Indexing. The first is for the PASS AppDev Virtual Chapter, and will take place on Tuesday at noon EST. You can attend the meeting via this link: https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=8PQHN2&role=attend Read More... Posted Monday, February 8, 2010 10:05 AM by AllenMWhite | 0 Comments Filed under: Speaking, SQL Server 2008, User Group Meetings

• [Nashville] Presentation: Administering SQL Server 2008

  As many of you know I run marathons. My next one is on Saturday in Nashville, the Country Music Marathon . Timing sometimes is our best asset, and so it is here in that the Nashville SQL Server Users Group is meeting on Friday at noon. They were kind Read More... Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:26 AM by AllenMWhite | 2 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, Speaking, SQL Server 2008, User Group Meetings

• User Group Presentation: Administering SQL Server 2008

  We are pleased to invite you to the March 12th 2009 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 Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:32 AM by AllenMWhite | 0 Comments Filed under: Speaking, SQL Server 2008, User Group Meetings

• PASS Demonstration Errors

  Errors occur. (I'm sure that's someone's corollary to Stuff Happens.) Errors occur, and that's why we write error handling code in our applications. My least favorite time for the occurrance of errors is when I'm doing demos, and that's what happened Read More... Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 12:37 PM by AllenMWhite | 4 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, SMO, Speaking, SQL Server 2008