PASS Summit DVD’s already helping me out

Colin Smith — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:50:13 +0000

So I just got my DVD’s on Tuesday after getting back to the office after vacation. I have watched a few and all that I have seen are very good. But I must point out the session called “Transactional Replication: Beyond the Basics” by Kendal Van Dyke (Blog | Twitter). Maybe it is just me and perhaps only because I got pulled into an environment that is using a lot of transactional replication and is having some issues. The issues are not only with replication but we have many issues with replication. I am also fairly new to replication. I understand what it does and the basics of how it works.

Kendal’s session really helped me out though. I have a much better understanding of what is going on “under the hood” with replication and I have some ideas of how I think we need to change our topology to better fill the needs of the application. He showed a the options that you have with replicating tables, procs, etc.. I had no clue that I had so many options. Now I can really dig into the replication and find out if we really are replicating all the data and information that we need to. I know for sure that all the tables do not have Primary keys and that is a big problem since that is a requirment to be able to replicate a table.

Another thing he went over is setting up alerts and doing it the correct way. This has been a problem for us but will not be any more.

Kendal is also very active on twitter with the #sqlhelp hashtag and gives out some great information about many topics to all.

Any way I just wanted to Tell Kendal that I enjoyed the session and I am sure that I will watch it again. I wanted to thank him along with all the other presenters at PASS. I have not watched them all yet but this one helps me now and gives me a good idea of where to start and how to accomplish what I need to get done.

The only negative thing I could say about the session recording, and I doubt this is Kenal’s fault, is that the audio cuts out at about 64:45 into it and does not come back until about 75:15 minutes. So that is about 10 minutes worth of information that I am missing out on. But a great session for me. Thanks again.

PASS Summit DVD’s are here!!!

Colin Smith — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:00:37 +0000

Today I came back into my office after being out for a couple of weeks. One week I was traveling for work and then I was on Vacation for a week and that was nice. Well when I got back to my desk I had a package sitting on my desk and I thought “hmmm what could that be?” I opened it up and it was my copy of the PASS Summit DVD’s. I am so excited to finally get the chance to watch all the sessions that I wanted to go to but could not make it to. I will also again be watching all the sessions that I did go to. I wish I had another week off so I could just go home and watch them all. My wife is not going to be happy tonight when she wants to watch TV I put one of these DVD’s in. I can not wait. I am shocked that I got them already. I really thought it would take longer to get the. Anyway off to start watching..

Hope you got yours as well.

It really is a Very Merry Christmas

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PASS Summit DVD’s already helping me out

PASS Summit DVD’s are here!!!