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• Speaking - Red Gate's SQL in the City

  - by AllenMWhite

  The great folks at Red Gate have invited me to join the festivities at the SQL in the City events in both Chicago on October 5, and in Seattle on November 5. In both cities I'll be presenting a session entitled Automated Deployment: Application And Database Releases Without The Headache . Here's the abstract: Ever since applications were first created, the deployment of updates and changes has been a headache, with the potential of disruption of the application at best and data corruption at worst....(read more)

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• Speaking About SQL Server

  - by AllenMWhite

  There's a lot of excitement in the SQL Server world right now, with the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) release of SQL Server 2012 , and the availability of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) . My personal speaking schedule has exploded as well. Just this past Saturday I presented a session called Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell . There are a lot of events coming up, and I hope to see you at one or more of them. Here's a list of what's scheduled so far: First, I'll be presenting a session...(read more)

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• T-SQL Tuesday #016:Check Your Service Accounts with PowerShell

  - by AllenMWhite

  T-SQL Tuesday #016:Check Your Service Accounts with PowerShell This T-SQL Tuesday is about Aggregate Functions. It may be a bit of a stretch, but a security best practice to use separate service accounts for all your SQL Server services, so I've written some PowerShell code to check to see if any account is used more than once on a given machine. I take advantage of the SQLWmiManagement DLL to find the SQL Server services, which is a safer bet than filtering on a service name. First I load the SQLWmiManagement...(read more)

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• Speaking - 24 Hours of PASS, Summit Preview Edition

  - by AllenMWhite

  There's so much to learn to be effective with SQL Server, and you have an opportunity to immerse yourselves in 24 hours of free technical training this week from PASS, via the 24 Hours of PASS event. I'll be presenting an introductory session on PowerShell called PowerShell 101 for the SQL Server DBA . Here's the abstract: The more you have to manage, the more likely you'll want to automate your processes. PowerShell is the scripting language that will make you truly effective at managing lots of...(read more)

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• Speaking - SQL Saturday 173, Washington DC

  - by AllenMWhite

  After a great time at the PASS Summit in Seattle I'll be once again presenting on PowerShell for SQL Server at SQL Saturday #173 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. On Friday, December 7 I'll be presenting my full day session Automate and Manage SQL Server with PowerShell . Here's the abstract: This soup-to-nuts all day session will first introduce you to PowerShell, after which you'll learn the basic SMO object model, how to manipulate data with PowerShell and how to use SMO to manage objects. We'll then...(read more)

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• Are We Losing a Standard (Edition) Data Recovery Technology?

  - by AllenMWhite

  One of the coolest technologies Microsoft released with SQL Server 2005 was Database Mirroring, which provided the ability to have a failover copy of a database on another SQL Server instance, and have the ability to automatically failover to that copy should a problem occur with the primary database. What was even cooler was that this new technology was available on Standard Edition! Mom and Pop shops could afford to implement a high availability solution without paying an extra tens of thousands...(read more)

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• Set and Verify the Retention Value for Change Data Capture

  - by AllenMWhite

  Last summer I set up Change Data Capture for a client to track changes to their application database to apply those changes to their data warehouse. The client had some issues a short while back and felt they needed to increase the retention period from the default 3 days to 5 days. I ran this query to make that change: sp_cdc_change_job @job_type='cleanup', @retention=7200 The value 7200 represents the number of minutes in a period of 5 days. All was well, but they recently asked how they can verify...(read more)

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• [Speaking] PowerShell at the PASS Summit

  - by AllenMWhite

  Next week is the annual PASS Summit , the event of the year for those of us in the SQL Server community. We get to see our old friends, make new friends, and learn an amazing amount about SQL Server, and it'll be in Seattle, so it's close to the mother ship. I love having Microsoft close, because it's easier to get to know the people who actually make this amazing product we spend our lives working with. This year I'm fortunate to have been selected to present three sessions. One is a regular session...(read more)

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• Search For a Query in RDL Files with PowerShell

  - by AllenMWhite

  In tracking down poorly performing queries for clients I often encounter the query text in a trace file I've captured, but don't know the source of the query. I've found that many of the poorest performing queries are those written into the reports the business users need to make their decisions. If I can't figure out where they came from, usually years after the queries were written, I can't fix them. First thing I did was find a great utility called RSScripter , which opens up a Windows dialog...(read more)

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• PASS Summit 2012 Day One Keynote

  - by AllenMWhite

  Today is the official start to the 2012 PASS Summit and I'm honored to have a seat at the Blogger's Table again. This is a set of tables set up in the back of the keynote room for people who blog frequently (I know) to share their thoughts on the keynote with the public, and appreciate the invitation from PASS to participate again. The lights go down and they showed a video of PASS board members talking about what the PASS Summit means to each of them. It was well put together and I know that the...(read more)

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• Scanning the Error Log with PowerShell

  - by AllenMWhite

  One of the most important things you can do as a DBA is to keep tabs on the errors reported in the error log, but there's a lot of information there and sometimes it's hard to find the 'good stuff'. You can open the errorlog file directly in a text editor and search for errors but that gets tedious, and string searches generally return just the lines with the error message numbers, and in the error log the real information you want is in the line after that. PowerShell 2.0 introduced a new cmdlet...(read more)

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• SQL Rally Voting Open

  - by AllenMWhite

  The voting for sessions for SQL Rally has been going on for a couple of weeks now. This week the Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment sessions are up for voting. I didn't go into politics because I don't feel comfortable telling people that they should vote for me but this is how the sessions are being decided for this conference, so here goes. I've submitted two abstracts, both grouped in the Summit Spotlight section. The first is a new session based on what I learned implementing...(read more)

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• Why Your Abstract Wasn't Selected

  - by AllenMWhite

  We're anxiously waiting to hear from PASS which sessions were selected for the 2014 Summit in November. It's a big job to go through the hundreds of submissions and pick the sessions that will appeal to the people who will be paying over $1,000 to attend this annual event. As I am also waiting to hear the results, I saw this article addressed to actors who didn't get cast for the part they worked so hard to audition for, and it seemed appropriate to address the same issues for would-be Summit speakers....(read more)

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• The 2013 PASS Summit - Day 1

  - by AllenMWhite

  It's SQL Server Geek Week once again! Every year at the PASS Summit the SQL Server faithful descend on the city of choice for the annual Summit, and this year it's Charlotte, North Carolina. Once again I've been given the privilege of sitting at the bloggers table, so my laptop is on a table! So far this week it's been great seeing people I get to see just once a year. I attended Red Gate's SQL in the City event on Monday, and saw some great sessions from Grant Fritchey, Steve Jones and Nigel Sammy....(read more)

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• T-SQL Tuesday #015:Remaining on Alert

  - by AllenMWhite

  This T-SQL Tuesday is about Automation in SQL Server, and I'll bet you think I'm going to talk about PowerShell. Well, you're partially right. What I'd like to talk about today, though, is setting up alerts to automate some responses to naturally occuring phenomena on your SQL Servers. (Note: I first introduced this technique in an article on Simple Talk here ). Without going back to the original article, I'm talking about a safety valve process for when your transaction logs start to fill at rates...(read more)

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• T-SQL Tuesday #015:Remaining on Alert

  - by AllenMWhite

  This T-SQL Tuesday is about Automation in SQL Server, and I'll bet you think I'm going to talk about PowerShell. Well, you're partially right. What I'd like to talk about today, though, is setting up alerts to automate some responses to naturally occuring phenomena on your SQL Servers. (Note: I first introduced this technique in an article on Simple Talk here ). Without going back to the original article, I'm talking about a safety valve process for when your transaction logs start to fill at rates...(read more)

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• T-SQL Tuesday #014:I Hereby Resolve

  - by AllenMWhite

  It's another T-SQL Tuesday! Like many others, I really don't make New Year's Resolutions. They're too easy to forget about and it's too easy to "justify" why it just wasn't practical (and sometimes it's true.) That said, there are some things I'm working on changing for this year. Last year was the first full year for my new business venture, and it has been successful so far. I'm confident it's going to continue on this path, and we'll be doing even better this time next year. With that success...(read more)

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• Build Your Personal Network

  - by AllenMWhite

  Recently a few people have approached me privately about their careers, and how they can make the changes to allow them to do the kind of work they'd like to do, be it consulting or in a full-time role. (In every case, I was flattered and surprised, as I never felt I had that much insight into career choices.) The most important thing, I told each of them, was to use the network of people you know. You will always be more successful finding opportunities through personal contacts than you will through...(read more)

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• Why Your Abstract Wasn't Selected

  - by AllenMWhite

  We're anxiously waiting to hear from PASS which sessions were selected for the 2014 Summit in November. It's a big job to go through the hundreds of submissions and pick the sessions that will appeal to the people who will be paying over $1,000 to attend this annual event. As I am also waiting to hear the results, I saw this article addressed to actors who didn't get cast for the part they worked so hard to audition for, and it seemed appropriate to address the same issues for would-be Summit speakers....(read more)

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• Your Presence Matters at the PASS Summit

  - by AllenMWhite

  This year will be my tenth year attending the annual PASS Summit. It's in Seattle again this year, which to me is important because of the proximity to the Microsoft offices and the people on the SQL Server dev team, as well as the CX (formerly CAT) teams that help so many people get the most out of SQL Server. The conference is the biggest event in the world specifically focused on SQL Server. As a result, it's an opportunity to meet many people who are directly focused on the SQL Server platform,...(read more)

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