I’ll be presenting at the Philadelphia SQL Server User’s Group at Microsoft Malvern on Wednesday December 7. The topic will be a new feature in SQL Server 2012–Always On Availability Groups. I’ll give an overview of the existing DR and HA technologies currently available with SQL 2008, talk about what’s need in 2012 Clustering, and […]
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Presentations from SQL Saturday #96 Washington
These are my presentations from SQL Saturday in Washington. I’ll post a follow up on a couple of the questions I had in the presentation later this week. http://www.slideshare.net/Jdanton/sql-saturday-powerpoint-dcsan http://www.slideshare.net/Jdanton/sql-saturday-dc-vm-ware
What my SQL Family Means to Me
So there are a ton of things I could talk about with this–helping each other remotely, being stuck, bored in a hotel room in another country and assisting with a restore for entertainment, or the fact that if I travel to almost anywhere I have someone to hang out with, but there’s more. The night […]
How to Find Data File Page Counts for a Table
Last week one of the guys on my DBA team, asked me if I knew of a way to identify which data from a table is in a particular data file. SQL Server (when it has multiple data files) typically does a proportional fill of data files—it will try to write an even amount of […]
Presenting at SQL Saturday 96 (Washington DC)
I’ll be presenting two sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC (well actually Chevy Chase, MD) on November 6. If you are in the mid-Atlantic and looking to get a great day of SQL Server education, please signup. The two topics I will be presenting on are Virtualization for DBAs and SANs for DBAs. […]
PASS Wrapup
The best thing I can tell you about the PASS Summit is my sleeping schedule since I’ve been home–on Saturday night I slept for about 11 hours, Sunday was more normal at 9, and then Monday night was big, with me going to bed at 8 and waking up around 7. So, now that I’m […]
PASS Day Three Keynote–Dr. DeWitt
I’m starting with my last paragraph–this blog post is a really long read. I recommend going to the SQLPASS website and watching this keynote, you will learn a ton about NoSQL and how it works.. This was truly incredible–really in-depth technical content, explained in a way that DBAs could easily understand. If anyone from PASS […]
Salary Data–Where to Get It..
So in yesterday’s WIT luncheon, there was a bit of discussion on salary data. There was even a discussion on going to your local HR department, to find out the range for your position. DON’T FREAKING DO THAT!!!! This could be a whole another topic, but you don’t want to send a loud signal to […]
SQL Pass–Day 2 Keynote
Bill Graziano took the stage in a lovely green kilt, with proper socks. Talking about growth in PASS outside of North America. For those of you not directly involved, PASS has been making a big (and successful) push to grow regions particularly outside in Europe and Asia. Lori Edwards (twitter) is the winner of the […]
What PASS Has Meant to Me and My Career
On the eve of leaving for my first PASS Summit, I wanted to talk a little bit about what the SQL Server community has meant to me and my career. In my older roles at Wyeth, I was largely an Oracle DBA, but I had always dabbled in SQL Server since the beginning of my […]