I as well as many others have a decision to make on who I am voting for the PASS Board of Directors. I haven’t made my mind up completely for all the votes I get to cast but one vote for sure is for Allen Kinsel. Why is my mind made up for Allen you […]
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Professional Etiquette When Sending Mass Email – Use BCC:
<begin soap box rant> Time and time again I find myself having to email people to remind them about how and when to use BCC when sending out correspondence to a huge group via email. The main rule of thumb I tell the senders is that if dialog is not needed between everyone on the […]
Cannot create Cluster – the computer X is joined to a cluster
Recently attempting to install a new three node cluster I ran into a new issue. Once I was able to run a successful “Cluster Validation Check” and chose the option to install a new cluster I received a message “The computer xxx is joined to a cluster”. My first thought then was to […]
SQL Server Installation Date
I have been working on a project recently to collect system metrics of a SQL Server environment. One of the items that came up that would like to collected is the date that SQL Server was installed on the server. In doing a quick search on where this property would be located I found that sys.server_principals […]
Support from Atlanta MDF
I have recently been notified that my neighboring SQL PASS Chapter Atlanta MDF will be sponsoring SQL Saturday 167 in Columbus GA. The Columbus GA SQL Users Group has been dubbed the “Extreme Southwest Atlanta Chapter” by Aaron Nelson (blog, twitter) For the past two years our two chapters have worked together in promoting […]
It was time for an upgrade
I am not one of these anti PC sorta guys, but I do love my MacBook Pro. I have owned a PC since 1993 when I got my Packard Bell 386 with Windows 3.1. Even with my MacBook I have 9 Windows flavored VM’s on it. To be honest, I have never had Windows run […]
Becoming the dumbest guy in the group
“Why I joined Linchpin People as a Teammate” It was announced publicly this past weekend at SQL Saturday #111 that I have joined Linchpin People as their first teammate. My friend Andy who is also a Chief Servant Officer of Linchpin made the announcement during the speaker dinner and gave me an official Linchpin dress […]
SQL Server Login Auditing
In recent months I have been asked to ensure we are auditing both successful and failed logins, not just failed logins. It is simple enough to open SSMS, connect to the instance, right click on the server, chose properties, click on security and then check the proper radio button. When putting together or most recent […]