Building upon the success of SQL Rally 2012 (where we packed a room full of DBAs), my friend Robert Davis [Twitter|Blog] and yours truly will be again delivering our day-long Pre-Conference “Demystifying Database Administration Best Practices” this Friday (6/8/2012) – right before SQLSaturday #132 in Pensacola, FL.

If you are in the vicinity of Pensacola, come join us! We had tons of fun at Rally. Robert and I love sharing tips and stories that will help you on your day to day duties as a DBA.

Some of the topics that we’ll touch on (this is by no means a comprehensive list)

• Active Directory configuration for SQL Server Deployments
• Windows Server Deployments
• Storage and I/O
• High Availability / Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
• Replication
• Day-To-Day Operations
• Maintenance
• TempDB
• Code Reviews
• Other Database and Server Settings

Follow this link to sign up for the Pre-Con at Pensacola: http://demystifyingdba.eventbrite.com/

Here’s a blog post that Robert made on the subject of Best Practices. 

Hope to see you there!