For my annual review, I started to slap together a list of what I’d been up to, and it turned into a ginormous doc. I had to copy it into here because I was so happy with it – turns out I haven’t been surfing the web the ENTIRE year.
Some of My Popular Blog Posts in 2008
- SQL Server 2005 Setup Checklist (2-part series)
- How to Start a Technical Blog (5-part series)
- Hosting SQL Server 2005 on Amazon EC2
- Somebody Created a Halloween Monster – #SQLPutdowns
- Twitter for SQL Server DBAs
- Steel Cage Blogmatch: How To Configure a SAN
- SQL P2V: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
- SQL 2008 Upgrade & Tuning for StackOverflow.com
Live Speaking Sessions
West Michigan PASS Chapter – August
“SQL Server Consolidation – Real World Stories and Options”
Detroit PASS Chapter – August
“SQL Server Consolidation – Real World Stories and Options”
Dusseldorf Europe PASS Conference – September
“SQL Server in the Cloud”
Quest Customer Briefing in Switzerland – September
“Detect, Diagnose and Resolve Performance Problems with Perfmon & Profiler”
Quest Day with the Experts in Redmond – September
“SAN Tips for First-Time Users”
“Detect, Diagnose and Resolve Performance Problems with Perfmon & Profiler”
Quest Day with the Experts in New York City – September
“Hit The Ground Running with SQL 2008”
“SQL 2008 Storage Changes: Encryption & Compression”
Tulsa TechFest – October
“Virtualization 101: Hyper-V versus VMware ESX”
“How to Write a SQL Server Performance Review”
“SQL Server Performance Monitoring & Budgeting with Perfmon”
Seattle PASS Summit 2008 – November
“Interpreting Perfmon and Profiler Results with Cloud-Based BI”
Webcasts
Quest Pain of the Week Webcasts:
- “How Do I Know When To Defragment My Database?” – April
- “CYA – Cover Your Apps” (backing up databases) – June
- “CSI:DBA – Going Back In Time To Understand What Happened To Your Data” – July
- “SQLServerPedia – The Definitive Knowledge Base” – December
SQL Server 2008 Worth the Wait – April
With Kevin Kline, Hilary Cotter and Geoff Hiten
SQL Server Consolidation & Virtualization Best Practices – July
With Kevin Kline, Ron Talmage
SSWUG Virtual Conference – November
“Finding Your Storage Bottlenecks with SQLIO”
“SAN Tips for First-Time Users”
“Virtualized Storage Pros & Cons”
SQLServerPedia Video Podcast Series
Ongoing.
Articles on Other Sites
“Virtual Database Storage for SQL Server: Friend or Foe?”
SearchSQLServer.com
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1321654,00.html
“SQL Server Backups Using SAN Snapshots”
SearchSQLServer.com
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1314693,00.html
“Tips for Moving SQL server from Local Disk Storage to SANs”
SearchSQLServer.com
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1313715,00.html
“Ten Things DBAs Need To Know About Storage” – Quest whitepaper
(Written before I was a Quest employee)
“Ten Things DBAs Don’t Know LiteSpeed Can Do” – Quest whitepaper
(Written before I was a Quest employee)
“Best Practices in Index Maintenance – Fighting the Silent Performance Killer” – Quest whitepaper
“SQL Server Data Mining in the Cloud”
SQLServerPedia.com
“SAN Performance Tuning with SQLIO”
SQLServerPedia.com
Whew. I gotta stop working so hard! Time to break for lunch.
More videos on SQLServerPedia this 2009!