RYANJADAMS

My PASS Board Vote

I’m not a politically minded person and this is not the type of post I would normally write. However, I’m deeply involved with the PASS organization (read chronic volunteer) and I have a vested interest in it’s success. The reason I decided to write this is because I have very strong feelings about two of the candidates and…
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The report execution has expired or cannot be found. [rsExecutionNotFound]

I ran across the following error in SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 a few weeks ago: The report execution has expired or cannot be found. [rsExecutionNotFound] This report contains a very large dataset, so my first inclination was that there was some query tuning and indexing review that needed to be done. The first thing I…
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PASS 2012 NomCom

I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2012 Nomination Committee! I love the SQL Community and everything it embodies. I am very involved at the local and regional level and gained a unique view into PASS working on SQLRally. I know most of the current and past board members and those relationships have…
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Speaking June 2012

June is going to be a busy month for me. Here is where you can catch me speaking this month. June 11th – Oklahoma City SQL Server Developers Group June12th – Tulsa SQL Server Group June 18th – CACTUSS Central June 19th – CACTUSS North June 20th – San Antonio SQL Server User Group
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Notify Social Media of New Blog Posts

Have you ever heard of IFTTT? It stands for “If This Then That”. I’ve been signed up for the service for quite some time, but I just now got around to really playing with it. So what does it do? It does exactly as the name implies. It is a service designed to perform certain actions…
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SQLRally Dallas Slides

I was fortunate enough to get to present not 1 but 2 sessions at SQLRally 2012 in Dallas last week. As a core organizer of the event, this really made it a special week to present twice and see it all come together. My first session was a community choice pick. The second session I got…
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SQLRally Can’t Miss Events

Things have been quiet around here lately and I have a one word explanation….SQLRally. There’s work and family and several other community commitments, but mostly SQLRally. The good news is that the time has come and I couldn’t be more excited. I haven’t been to a SQLSaturday or community event in months and I’m having serious…
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Configure Anti-Virus on your SQL Server

This week I had an application team report the error “SQL Connection Lost”. Fortunately they also reported the exact times of occurrence, which made it much easier to hunt down. I did some digging through the SQL logs and DMVs, but did not find anything that indicated SQL was dropping the connection. I also did…
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Learn Mirroring with me at SQLRally

I just found out that I will be speaking at SQLRally Dallas in May. I submitted 3 sessions. As an event organizer, all 3 automatically went to community vote. I am very excited that my Mirroring session was voted in. Thank you to everyone who voted for me! Mirroring Start to Finish Mirroring can be…
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Speaking at PASS DBA Virtual Chapter

I will be speaking for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on February 22nd, 2012. I will be delivering my presentation on Mirroring. If you have not checked out the virtual chapters that PASS has, then you need to Go Check Them Out. These chapters are designed to fill the gap for areas of the country that…
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