Breakfast event at PASS on Thursday – still seats available!

Repeating this post from last month because I found out there’s still room available:

This year at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Quest Software is sponsoring an expert panel event on automating SQL Server processes. Sounds boring, right? Think again – here’s when you need to check out process automation:

• You can’t hire help (either no budget or no available people) and you can’t keep up
• Your number of servers keeps growing
• You don’t know if every server got backed up in the last hour
• You don’t have an index maintenance plan for rebuilds & defrags

I’m always amazed that Microsoft SQL Server has been around for so long, but there’s very few standardized automation scripts. So many of us have our own duct-taped SQL Server backup T-SQL scripts, have disdain for the built-in maintenance plan approach, and would never think to Google for an automation script instead of rolling our own.

The experts with their fancy opinions:

• Allen White, SQL Server MVP and Trainer for Scalability Experts (moderator)
• Kevin Kline, SQL Server MVP and Technical Strategy Manager, Quest Software
• Buck Woody, Program Manager, SQL Server, Microsoft
• Dan Jones, Product Manager, SQL Server, Microsoft
• Thomas LaRock, Database Engineering Lead, ING Investment Management
• Charley Hanania, Production Product Owner, SQL Server, UBS
• Brent Ozar, SQL Server Domain Expert, Quest Software

Why am I on the list? Because I, for one, welcome our new robot DBA overlords.

When: Thursday, November 20, 2008
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. (breakfast served until 7:30)

Where: Seattle Convention Center
Room 613 (6th floor)

If you want the free eats, you gotta RSVP online for the event. Afterwards, let’s track down the nearest open establishment for some Bloody Marys. (I kid, of course. They don’t have to be open. There will be enough of us to storm the doors.)