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Summit 2011 Day 2
This morning I headed over to Top Pot doughnuts to hang out with Andy Warren, Steve Jones, Bill Fellows, David Fargo, Tim Radney, and many others. It was a nice time of networking and a good small crowd. The doughnuts were good with a large and interesting selection and the coffee was good as well.…
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Summit 2011 Day 1
Morning I got up at 6am PT this morning, got ready, got some coffee from Starbucks, and made it to the convention center by 7AM. I had no problem following the signs to registration and there was no wait in getting registered. I wish I had gotten in early enough yesterday to make registration, but no…
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Summit 2011 Day 4 LIVE!
Today I will be LIVE blogging the keynote from the PASS Summit 2011 conference. Keep your browser tuned in here and refresh often. Today’s keynote is being delivered by Quentin Clark. Quentin is Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of the SQL Server database systems group. I will also try to tweet updates as I can so make…
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SQLSaturday #97 Wrap-up
#97 This was a great event! This was Austin’s first SQLSaturday, so it’s quite an accomplishment and something to celebrate. I brought my family with me since my wife wanted to do some shopping in San Marcos. The drive down went well and we only had two hickups. The first was just a minor hold…
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PBM On Schedule Mode
Let’s take a look out how to schedule policy evalution using the PBM On Schedule mode. Start by double clicking on the policy of your choice. Next we need to change the evaluation mode to On Schedule. As soon as you make this change you will notice a red warning appear at the top of the dialog…
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PBM Evaluation Methods
There are four different ways we can evaluate policies against servers in our environment. These methods are all manual and I will cover how to automate them in another post. This is just a quick list to show your available options, and where they are located. We can evaluate a single policy against a single instance by…
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PBM Evaluation Modes
PBM has four evaluation modes that provide us with flexibility in the way we evaluate policies against our SQL instances. Here are the options and what we can use them for: On Demand – This is a manual policy evaluation. Policies in this mode can only be evaluated by performing a policy evaluation in SSMS. On Schedule…
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #97
I will be speaking at SQLSaturday #97 in Austin, TX on October 1st, 2011. I will be delivering my presentation on database mirroring. I know the event team for this SQLSaturday and I can say without a doubt that it will be an event to be remembered. Wes Brown (Blog|Twitter), Jim Murphy (Blog|Twitter), and AJ Mendo (Blog|Twitter) are…
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I’m a PASS Regional Mentor!
This past weekend I was speaking at SQLSaturday #90 in Oklahoma City. During the event I had the pleasure of sitting down and getting to know Karla Landrum (PASS Community Evangelist). We met each other at a SQLSaturday in Houston earlier this year, but we didn’t have much time to chat. We had a great…
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SQLSaturday #90 Wrap-up
#90 This was a fantastic event! This was Oklahoma City’s first SQLSaturday, so it’s quite an accomplishment and something to celebrate. Tim Mitchell, Russell Loski, and I started off by heading from Dallas to Oklahoma City which only took about 3 hours. The speaker dinner was held at the Embassy Suites hotel restaurant. The hotel and restaurant…