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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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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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