RYANJADAMS
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PASS Summit Day 2 Keynote
Welcome back folks for day 2 of the PASS Summit in Charlotte, NC. We are 6 or 7 minutes away from getting under way. I’ll be live blogging this morning’s keynote so refresh your page often. I’ll be taking short notes to keep you up to date as opposed to paragraph form. We are off…
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PASS Summit Day 1 Keynote
Welcome to the PASS Summit 2013 LIVE keynote blog. I’ll be live blogging this morning’s keynote so refresh your page often. I’ll be taking short notes to keep you up to date as opposed to paragraph form. We are about 5 minutes from start time and this place is packed. The room is huge and…
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Where I’ll Be
Things have been too quiet here on the blog, but there’s a reason (a few actually). This year has been nuts for me, but it’s all good stuff! We just moved, and moving a family is not fun. It was a long process from selling the old house to searching and finding a new one.…
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Holy Schnikes I’m Speaking at PASS Summit 2013
I am beyond excited to announce that I have been accepted to speak at the annual SQL PASS Summit 2013 in Charlotte, NC. This will be my first time to speak at this event and I can’t wait! The session I will be presenting is titled “How Active Directory Affects SQL Server”. I have been…
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Policy Based Management On Change: Prevent not available
Policy Based Management has 4 evaluation modes and if you are not already familiar with them you can go HERE to get more information. Today I want to talk about the “On Change: Prevent” mode and why you don’t always see it as an option. The options you see available are dependent on the facets…
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Renaming Server with SQL
I recently had to rename my laptop on which I have two SQL server instances. I have a default instance and a named instance. I actually have had the laptop renamed for awhile without any issues, but it’s not production and I don’t use it every day. I first encountered the error while creating a…
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LinkedIn Top 1% Most Viewed Profile of 2012
In early February I received an email from LinkedIn that I have one of the top 1% most viewed profiles for 2012. That’s really cool and I had no idea! In fact, I couldn’t remember the last time I had updated it. This prompted a serious, “Dude you better get out there and do some…
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User Group Marketing
I blogged about this back in September of 2010, but technology changes so it’s time to revisit this again. Now I’m not anything even close to a marketing expert, but I’ve been the Director of Logistics and Communications for the North Texas SQL Server User Group for the past 2 years (I just started a…
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Summit 2012 Keynote Day2
This post is a live blog of the PASS Summit 2012 keynote from day 2 on 11/8/2012. This post is intended to be a live note taking. Douglas McDowell opens day 2 by giving an overview of the health of the PASS organization. This year PASS has added an additional community evangelist, and better IT…
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Summit 2012 Keynote Day1
This post is a live recap of the keynote at the PASS Summit 2012 conference. Bill Graziano opens Summit 2012 with 3894 attendees. Bill recognizes local and virtual chapter leaders as well as SQLSaturday event organizers. The PASS BA conference is announced to be in Chicago in April. Bill introduces Ted Kummert who will talking…