You’re minding your own business in your corner office—well, since you’re a DBA, it’s just your cubicle—when somebody asks, “Did you know about this SQL Server over here?” Suddenly, you have to find out what the server’s doing, how it was set up, and whether things are working correctly.
On May 20th at 7AM Eastern, 11AM GMT, I’ll give you the answer in my “BLITZ! Server Takeovers” session at the 24 Hours of PASS.
In this all-demo session, you’ll see how to take over a SQL Server and:
- Quickly assess a server’s health using a set of scripts
- Catch dangerous development issues that will haunt you later
- Save yourself hours – maybe days – of troubleshooting
- Quickly put some basic measures into place to minimize your risk
This year’s 24 Hours of PASS includes speakers from all over the world – it’s international – so I’m calling it the 24iHOP. I’m the very last session, and they didn’t save the best for last, either – some of the other sessions include Donald Farmer showing PowerPivot, Kevin Kline on the mistakes you’re making right now, and Adam Machanic on DMVs.
You can register for my session now free, and check out the full session list.
Thanks, looks good.
Added a link in SQLEvents.org:
http://www.sqlevents.org/?p=125
Yikes, 4am (PST)? Man, I enjoy your presentations, but the strongest toothpicks couldn’t keep my eyes pried open at that time in the morning. I’ll have to watch the replay.
I hear ya. The crazy thing is that presentations go around the clock, so people are presenting all hours of the night. Ouch.
Great topic to talk about. I have this problem, even at my small shop. When I browse a list of SQL Servers in TOAD or SSMS, I get back a bunch of machines that as far as I know should NOT be running SQL.