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Losing Weight and Testing Code

Brent Ozar
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David Stein (Blog – Twitter) wrote a post called “Pop Quiz Hotshot” about starting your disaster recovery plan *now*.  It’s a great read with good points that everyone needs to act on, but the comments indicate that not everybody’s seeing eye to eye.  As usual, I rely on similes because I’m lazy. How to Lose…
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PASS Recap: Interview with Val Fontama

Brent Ozar
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Next up in my PASS Summit interview series is Microsoft’s Val Fontama. Val focused on the new Parallel Data Warehouse Edition of SQL Server 2008R2, formerly known as Project Madison. I was really excited about the prospects of this new edition, and I had a lot of practical implementation questions. Let’s see whether the answers…
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PASS Session Preview: DRP 101

Brent Ozar
#SQLPass
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I’m giving a presentation on Disaster Recovery Planning 101 at the PASS Summit in Seattle.  At past summits, I’ve struggled to pick good sessions to attend.  What’s the speaker’s real agenda?  Are they a decent speaker?  Can I see a short 3-4 minute preview of the material? This year I’m trying an experiment.  I’m recording…
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I’m Going to Disn-errr, #SQLPASS!

Brent Ozar
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Woohoo!  I’m presenting three sessions at the PASS Summit in Seattle this year.  I’m doing one with Jason Massie (Twitter – Blog) on Social Computing for the Database Professional (I don’t have the abstract handy for that one), and these two: Session: Yes, I’m Actually Using The Cloud Security in the Cloud There’s a lot…
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PowerShell poll results

Brent Ozar
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In my SQL Server CMDB webcast this week, I ran a poll: how many of the ~100 attendees had worked with PowerShell? No, but plan to – 40% No, and don’t plan to – 40% Yes, for 0-6 months – 10% Yes, for 6 months or more – 10% I’m rounding those percentages.  The short…
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PASS Summit 2009 Call to Speakers Open! #SQLPass

Brent Ozar
#SQLPass
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The Professional Association for SQL Server Summit is being held again this November in Seattle, and the Call to Speakers is now open.  You can only submit 4 sessions, which seemed very small to me until I realized that I do entirely too many presentations. In Twitter, somebody mentioned that it’d be a good idea…
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Upcoming SQL Server Online Events

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My job this month: writing! I’m writing a storage chapter for an upcoming SQL Server book, and I’m putting together a dizzying array of presentations for the next couple of months.  My Upcoming Events page has the low-down on each one, but here’s where I’ll be in the next few months: February 12th – Perfmon…
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Spring SSWUG Virtual Conference

Brent Ozar
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Ah, spring – that time of year when young men’s thoughts turn to T-SQL.  The next SSWUG V-Conference will be April 22-24th, and I’ll be giving a few sessions: Log Shipping To The Cloud (300-level) In an ideal world, we’d have a standby SQL Server in a disaster recovery datacenter, but we can’t always afford…
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Are blades right for small businesses?

Brent Ozar
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After reading my HP c7000 Blade Chassis review, a reader contacted me with a question: “I do computer consulting and web hosting, and I recently bought a blade chassis.  I was going to use it for web hosting at a colo datacenter, but I’m debating whether to use it or keep using 1u pizza box…
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PASS Summit 2008 Wednesday Recap (#sqlpass)

Brent Ozar
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Aside from my liveblog of Ted Kummert’s keynote this morning and Jimmy May’s presentation on partition alignment, a few other things caught my eye today. I talked to JC Cannon about his SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide.  I’ve written here about it before, but it bears repeating.  If you’re not here at PASS, and you…
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Amazon EC2 will offer Windows hosting

Brent Ozar
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A lot of cool things are happening at PDC this year, and Amazon’s already showing their cards: Amazon EC2 will offer Windows hosting. That means you can turn on a brand new Windows machine – or ten – and pay by the hour according to the capacity you’re using.  Less than a dollar an hour…
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Long live the DBA

Brent Ozar
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Jason Massie (aka StatisticsIO.com) wrote a blog post this week called The Death of the DBA.  He talks about why the coming cloud computing craze creates career chaos. I have the exact opposite opinion: I can’t wait for databases to move toward the cloud because it makes database administrators even more vital. Reason #1: Cloud…
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Meet Quest Software’s new database guy

Brent Ozar
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I have a new job, and lemme just tell you, it feels like my whole career has prepared me for this one. I spent several years at UniFocus, a hospitality software company that relied on SQL Server. I honed my SQL skills, but probably more importantly, I managed a small team of programmers. I worked…
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Don’t specify IP’s in your SQL connection string

Brent Ozar
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In today’s SQL newsletter from SQL-Server-Performance.com I was horrified to find the following tip: When you specify a server in an ADO.NET connection string, use the server’s IP address, not the server’s DNS name. By using an IP address instead of a DNS name, name resolution does not have to occur, reducing the amount of…
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Brent Ozar

Hi! I’m Brent Ozar.

I make Microsoft SQL Server go faster. I love teaching, travel, cars, and laughing. I’m based out of Las Vegas. He/him. I teach SQL Server training classes, or if you haven’t got time for the pain, I’m available for consulting too.

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