We had our most successful EDMPASS meeting ever last night. We were lucky enough to get (newly appointed MVP) Brent Ozar via Live Meeting as our feature presenter. The session was titled “Hit the Ground Running with SQL Server 2008″ and it was a great presentation on the Central Management Server, Policy Based Management, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘SQL 2008’
Heard it from a friend who… heard it from a friend who…
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Have I mentioned how much I love the SQL community….
Hey… have you heard that Jonathan Kehayis wrote a blog post about some uses for DBINFO and the dbi_version and dbi_createVersion values?
Yeah but did you hear that Paul Randal wrote a blog post about Checking if Data Purity check will be [...]
Categorizing your Policies… yes ANOTHER PBM post
I’m sorry but I’m loving me some PBM right now.
Something that I’ve found to be very useful is creating a custom Policy Category. I have scheduled jobs that evaluates all the policies that belong to a specific category. So what I do is I categorize the Policies that I want ran based on when I [...]
Look what I can do!! (w/Policy Based Management)
If you’ve never watched Stuart from MadTV the Title of this blog post will probably be lost on you but if you want to get up to speed just Watch This Video on YouTube
So if you read my blog (first thanks!! ) you know that I’ve been having a love affair lately with [...]
Hiding Your “Kibbles and Bits”
One guess on who’s having WAY TOO MUCH FUN blogging these day?? LOL
Too often DBAs don’t take the time to review their environments and their surface area exposure. You want to evaluate the features that you’ve enabled and determine if they are required. The less features enabled, the less likelyhood that you will have a successful [...]


