February 2008 - Posts

• Silly: A day in the life of a DBA

  Since it is leap day, I thought something semi-serious would be in order. See if this sounds familiar. I often tell a joke like this to a group before I speak and see lots of heads nodding. If this is your life, sound off! [Queue film-noir music]: "My Read More... Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 10:51 AM by James Luetkehoelter | 4 Comments

• Yes Virginia, there is a Wisconsin SQL Server Users Group

  I've had a number of people ask me as of late, as I made an entry quite awhile ago on another blog about the creation of a SQL Server Users Group in Wisconsin. There is one, and its been running for a couple of years now. I'll be speaking at the April Read More... Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:29 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 0 Comments

• OT: My ebook download

  It looks like my book is available on Apress.com as an eBook. If you're interested in it and want it at a low, low price, ebook is the way to go. It shows up on the main page in new releases. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:29 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 0 Comments

• 5 things I wish every SSRS developer would do

  I had a great discussion while teaching a class on Reporting Services today, discussing the basics of report design (yes, I make them consider basic principles of report design before I start talking about the technical details - I'm a stickler that way). Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:34 AM by James Luetkehoelter | 10 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Reporting Services, SSRS

• PASS presentation: What would you like to hear about?

  So I generally speak at PASS every year. Unless I've offended the powers that be, I will again. So, I have an open question to colleagues and readers and those that have come to my sessions - what would you like to know more about? Perhaps everyone could Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:29 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2008, SQL Server, PASS

• Editorial: Distributed Data and Disaster Recovery

  I think we have a very, very large problem approaching in the IT industry. As data systems and business become more and more integrated, the concept of disaster recovery will become very, very complicated. SQL Server alone provides a means of direct integration Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:41 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 0 Comments Filed under: disaster recovery

• Filegroups Part II: Separating objects

  In my last post on filegroups (it seems like ages ago), I argued that separating tables and their non-clustered indexes between two different filegroups, with each filegroup on a separate I/O path can improve performance. That article was met with skepticism. Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:19 AM by James Luetkehoelter | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Filegroups

• Finally...finished....book...

  I haven't written a blog in quite awhile, I was trapped under my refrigerator (bizarre redecorating accident - don't ask). Now that I have finally finished my book, SQL Server Disaster Recovery (published by Apress), I can get back to writing here. For Read More... Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 1:12 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 8 Comments