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• [Speaking] Manage SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core with PowerShell

  This evening I'll be presenting a brand new session on installing and managing SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell. Here's the abstract: Windows Server 2008 introduced Server Core, the operating system without the Graphical User Interface. SQL Server 2012 Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:26 PM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Database Administration, User Group Meetings, Speaking

• Speaking about Performance and PowerShell

  I'll be presenting at the South East Michigan SQL Server User Group (SEMSSUG) tonight. The session will be Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell . We all know how important it is to keep a baseline of performance metrics that allow us to Read More... Posted Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:37 PM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Database Administration, User Group Meetings, Speaking

• SQL Rally Voting Open

  The voting for sessions for SQL Rally has been going on for a couple of weeks now. This week the Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment sessions are up for voting. I didn't go into politics because I don't feel comfortable telling people Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:28 PM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, User Group Meetings, Speaking

• Speaking about Source Control for DBAs

  Brian Davis and I will be presenting a session on managing database change via source control tomorrow evening. Developers use source control consistently and with great success, but database change has been resistant to it, largely because the change Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:35 PM by AllenMWhite | 0 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, User Group Meetings, Speaking

• PASS PowerShell/SQL Server PreCon

  PowerShell is an amazing tool to help you automate your administrative processes. There are a lot of books and online sources to help you learn PowerShell, but how do you learn how to use it with SQL Server? Simple, just sign up for my PASS PreCon session. Read More... Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM by AllenMWhite | 4 Comments Filed under: SMO, PowerShell, Database Administration, User Group Meetings, SQL Server 2008, Speaking

• Speaking at SQLSaturday #33 in Charlotte

  I'll be presenting two sessions this Saturday (March 6, 2010) in Charlotte - Automate SQL Server Administration with PowerShell and Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell . The event takes place at the Microsoft Charlotte Offices on 8050 Microsoft Read More... Posted Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:33 AM by AllenMWhite | 0 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Database Administration, User Group Meetings, SQL Server 2008, Speaking

• User Group Presentation: Essential Database Management - Top Ten Recommendations

  In the August 13th 2009 meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group (ONSSUG), Paul Randal and his wife Kimberly Tripp , will run you through their top-ten database maintenance recommendations, with a lot of tips and tricks along the way. This top Read More... Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 8:56 AM by AllenMWhite | 2 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, User Group Meetings

• [Nashville] Presentation: Administering SQL Server 2008

  As many of you know I run marathons. My next one is on Saturday in Nashville, the Country Music Marathon . Timing sometimes is our best asset, and so it is here in that the Nashville SQL Server Users Group is meeting on Friday at noon. They were kind Read More... Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:26 AM by AllenMWhite | 2 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, User Group Meetings, SQL Server 2008, Speaking

• [Ohio] A Day in the Life of the DBA 2008

  We are pleased to invite you to the October 9th 2008 meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group (ONSSUG). The meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:45 in the Cleveland Microsoft office. The address of the office is below: Microsoft Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 9:37 AM by AllenMWhite | 1 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, User Group Meetings, SQL Server 2008