SQL Server

MVP First Timers Webcast On Demand

For those of you who are going to the MVP Summit this year, I did a web cast on what to expect the first time you attend the MVP summit.  For some very annoying reason the video won't embed correctly here, so you'll find the video over on my

SQL Server 2012 Class March 19-22, 2012

This March I, Microsoft MVP for SQL Server and Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008 Denny Cherry, am teaching a 4 day class introducing SQL Server 2012.  This four day class is being offered for only $1200 for four full days of training on...

Come check out a SQL pre-con at Tech Ed

In addition to delivering a pre-con at Tech Ed Europe (which I blogged about yesterday) I can proudly say that Thomas LaRock (@sqlrockstar | blog) and I will be presenting a pre-con at Tech Ed North America...

Europe just can’t get rid of me!

No matter how hard Europe tries to keep me away, I'll be back in June for the premier Microsoft conference, Tech Ed Europe 2012. And not only will I be attending, but little old me will be presenting a

Meme Monday: what is your first blog post?

As I got tagged by Denis Gobo (@DenisGobo | blog) on his Meme Monday post, here it is.  Denis (I have to try really hard not to put two n's in his name) asked "What is the first blog post you wrote...

All hail Bill Graziano now known as El Hefe

Today (technically yesterday) begins the reign of the new president of the SQL PASS organization.  Taking the lead of the organization is someone who I'm happy to call a good friend, Bill Graziano (@billgraziano |

SQL Server 2012 Training Annoucement

I am please to announce the first of my SQL Server 2012 training classes being held March 19-22 at the Microsoft office in Los Angeles, California.  This isn't a short class, but a 4 day training class which will cover installation, manageability,...

Back To Basics: Why isn’t maintenace automatic?

One of the questions which I see pop up from time to time (especially when I used to work for a VAR that wrote software for small businesses) is why doesn't SQL Server do the maintenance automatically?  Things like checking for corruption (DBCC CHECKDB), index defragmentation, backups, etc. The...

Fragmentation may cause corruption

Let me start this off by saying that I chose the title of this blog post very carefully.  You'll note that it says "fragmentation may cause corruption" not that it will cause corruption, so before you go saying "Denny says that if you have any fragmentation of the database it'll become...

Me, Sean and Jen all talking politics & more

So last weekend I had the chance to fly over to Dallas and hang with Sean and Jen McCown (the Mignight DBAs) and be the guest on their web show all live and in person for the...