In my “Theme Phrase 2012” post last week I said my theme phrase for 2012 (and the rest of 2011) was “Get Your Geek On”. I’m going to stay with that theme and advertise a new page on the BenchmarkITConsulting.com website: Speaking Schedule to help me “Get My Speak On” Part of getting “my geek [...]
Posts Tagged ‘PASS’
Speaking Schedule
2011 Dec 14th 2011 – SWFSSUGS – South West Florida SQL User Group Dec 28th 2011 – MADPASS – The Madison SQL Server Users Group 2012 Mar 22nd – Curacao SQL Server User Group Mar 28th – Evansville SQL Server User Group Mar 29th – EDMPASS / EDMUG User Groups May 26th – OKPASS Okanagan [...]
SQL 2012 is Retro – What’s Old is New Again
WHICH IS MORE SCARY? OR Don’t worry this is NOT going to be a post about Microsoft Access but I did have a flashback when I was playing around with CTP3 of SQL Server 2012 (yeah that’s right… I called it 2012. Denali is SO last month ) So what did I find that would [...]
I Want to Speak (Virtually) At YOUR Chapter!
On December 28th I’ll be doing a virtual presentation for MADPASS (The Madison SQL Server Users Group) on Doing More With Less… Policy Based Management Session Abstract: Do more with less… sound familiar? In this introduction to Policy Based Management presentation we will be going over what Policy Based Management is and how to use [...]
You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks – Extended Events
Well this “old dog” has been putting off REALLY getting my hands dirty with Extended Events for a while now. I’ve become quite “comfortable” in my toolset for monitoring/troubleshooting with things like: Performance Counters DMVs SQL Profiler SQLDiag / SQL Nexus Event Notifications The benefits and efficiencies of Extended Events are just too good to [...]
