Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX with some awesome speakers. Wish me luck, when I leave Austin I hope that many more TempDB’s are optimized.
The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts which look great with a pair of slacks. Today I work my speaker shirt from SQL Saturday #81 (Birmingham AL). I was shopping this evening at a local supermarket when a young guy came up […]
Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and find myself having to look up the syntax most of the time. I guess it is one of those things that if you don’t use it often enough you don’t commit it to memory. So […]
SQL Saturday #97 – Austin TX
In less than a week I will make the trip out to Austin TX to speak at my 7th SQL Saturday this year. I am really excited about this trip. There are several speakers I am looking forward to hanging out with and getting to know better. This is perfect timing as the Summit is […]
KB2463332 failed to install
This morning I was working on getting all new inherited SQL Servers patched to current levels of service packs when one particular server was failing on patching the database engine itself. A quick google search revealed articles tips that someone may have deleted the c:windowsinstaller contents. That wasn’t my case. After reviewing the summary.txt file […]
SQL Saturday 89 has come and gone!
All the planning, stressing, and freaking out about SQL Saturday #89 came to and end this past weekend. We had a very successful event with 314 attendees, over 30 speakers, lots of volunteers, and some awesome sponsors. This was the ATL areas 4th SQL Saturday and the largest yet. The location of the event and […]
Speaking at SQL Saturday 89
With a late cancellation with one of our speakers a hole was opened on our speaker lineup. I reached out to a couple of the folks we couldn’t originally fit on our schedule but one couldn’t get a cheap enough flight and the other had schedule other plans. A third hasn’t responded back. With time […]
SQL Saturday #97 – Austin TX
The schedule for SQL Saturday 97 has been posted and I was selected to give my “It’s TempDB, Why Should You Care” session. I am really excited to be speaking in Austin TX. Wes Brown and crew have put together a great list of sessions that should help bring a SQL Revival to the Austin […]