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 […]
SQL Saturday #89 is 10 days away
I just 10 short days Atlanta GA will be hosting the most stellar lineup of speakers SQL Saturday has ever seen. There have been lots of chatter about SQL Sat #89 being deemed SQL Rally of Atlanta. With 485 people registered and 26 currently on the waiting list, we will have to keep a close […]
When technology works.
Living in the South East has it perks with the abundant rivers, lakes, streams, mountains, and friendly people. It also has some drawbacks like being within reach of tropical storms, hurricanes, and the abundance of tornados. This Labor Day was quickly impacted by Tropical Storm Lee who came ashore early into the three day weekend. […]
It is not a blame game.
Here is a hypothetical situation. A dba works for ACME Corp. Due to what ever reason a change has to be made to a user account within Active Directory that should not create any negative issues for the user account. Sounds typical right? The change is made (just happens to be the domain user account […]
Shrinking Transaction Logs
I see questions on forums all the time about DBA’s or System Admins finding they are out of drive space due to a very large transaction log. Post vary a bit on what the admin has tried but a common theme is that they have tried shrinking the file but it didn’t shrink and a […]