It's 2AM and Disaster just began... In this session I want to discuss about best practices for surviving disaster, based on my experience in few years in data center. I presented this session as Lightning Talks in Liverpool. Now is the time for full
In this session we shall demonstrate configuration, installation and administration of SQL Server 2012 on Server 2008R2 Core. We shall discuss Command line and PowerShell configuration, Installation of SQL, Remote Administration and Clustering.
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the easiest database to setup and administrate. But that doesn't mean it's problem free. Find out the most common DBA mistakes on SQL Server so that you can make sure not to make them!
LogParser is a free data application that anyone working with SQL Server should know about, come along and see how you could use it.
I'll explain how to manage a large environment of 400+ instances in such a way that it's also useful if you have only 5 instances. Expect 50% processes and war stories and 50% demos and scripts (lots of PowerShell of course, but not everything)
Well, I'm a DBA and one of my duties is to check that all SQL Server stuff are in the right place. It's a routine job, but, probably, the most important duty as DBA because it can help me to predict many important problems.
Tools and utilities are very useful for any data platform deployment, management, and administration. This session demonstrates native tools and techniques along with world class third party tools from IDERA that can make your long days shorter and m
PowerPivot can be a great troubleshooting / performance tuning tool for a dba besides just loading all the data in a database and start querying. I'll show the pro's and cons of PowerPivot while trying work with waitstats, profiler data etc.
Brad McGehee, Red Gate's Director of DBA Education, will share his experience of monitoring SQLServerCentral's DB performance what he found, how he did it using SQL Monitor, and how they were fixed. Following that Brian Harris will demo SQL Monitor.
In this session I’ll show you how to maintain security and development rigour whilst allowing the developers to use ORM tools.