SQL Server

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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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…
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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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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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