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. Here's the outline: Use PowerShell to Get the Most out of SQL Server Module 1: ...

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 Way, Charlotte, NC 28273. For more information please visit SQLSaturday.com or email us ...

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 The second will be the same ...

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 enough to ask me to do my presentation on new features and administering SQL Server 2008. In ...

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 Corporation 6050 Oak Tree Blvd. Suite 300 Cleveland, OH 44131 Agenda: Topic: ...

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 Corporation 6050 Oak Tree Blvd. Suite 300 Cleveland, OH 44131 Agenda: 5:00 - 5:45 ...

Last night at the NYC SQL Server Users Group meeting Linchi Shea presented a session on Data Compression (not Backup Compression) in SQL Server 2008. By understanding how the compression algorithm works, and tuning your clustered indexes based on that understanding, you can achieve some pretty incredible space savings on disk, and performance ...

We are pleased to invite you to the September 11th 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 Corporation 6050 Oak Tree Blvd. Suite 300 Cleveland, OH 44131 Agenda: 5:00 - ...

Wow, it's been a crazy month! Two weeks of Tech Ed in Orlando, where I spent time helping people with questions on SQL Server in the Database Platform area and presented two sessions on SMO and PowerShell (one with my friend Peter Ward from Australia). Then, my last week as a DBA at Advanstar, followed by my first week as a Trainer for ...

Normally our meetings are on the second Thursday of the month, but this year that falls on Valentine's Day, so we've moved the meeting to Thursday, February 21. Here's the agenda for the February meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group: 5:00 - 5:45 PM - PASS Chapter Acceptance/SQL 2008 Heroes Happen Here: Presentation Tips and Tricks - ...