March 2008 - Posts
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2008 PASS Community Summit has been extended through Monday, March 31, 2008.
If you were considering submitting an abstract but thought you ran out of time, you now have a few extra days. Let's get those abstracts drawn up while watching basketball this weekend!
Chuck
The call for presentations for the 2008 PASS Community Summit closes on Friday, March 28, 2008. If you are interested in submitting an abstract, go to http://calltospeakers.sqlpass.org/.
The PASS Community Summit is a great opportunity to start your career as a conference speaker or to add to your presentation list if you already present at conferences. Please consider submitting an abstract or 6.
Chuck
If anyone is interested, I will be presenting at the Wisconsin SQL Server User Group meeting in June. The meeting date is Tuesday, June 10, 2008, and it will be held at the Microsoft office in Waukesha, WI. The meeting starts at 4:30 PM, and usually is wrapped up by 6:30 PM (to allow people to make it to the local .NET user group meeting at 7:00 PM).
I'll be presenting on new features in SQL Server 2008. This will be a follow-up to the session in April by James L.
If there are any topics that you would like to see covered, please add them as comments to this post.
See you in June!
Chuck
Have you ever had one of those days where everything is going great until *kapow* a piece of hardware stops working properly?
I had that happen to me a few weeks ago - twice!
I had planned out a major migration for my Dev/QA/UAT environment. This involved unistalling SQL Server, recarving a bunch of disk, renaming a few servers, changing the domain on a few servers, then restoring all of the backups that I took.
Things were going along quite well until I tried to reboot one of my servers and it wouldn't come back up. We had to have the hardware vendor come in and bring the machine back to life. Luckily, we didn't lose anything but time.
Then, a few hours later, I rebooted a different server and it wouldn't come back up. At this point, I started to question what I was doing to these poor machines. We got the hardware vendor to bring that box back up. Again, we didn't lose anything but time.
Both of these issues were complete flukes. It just so happens that they both happened during the same migration. Frustrating.
But, at least the new environment is up and running!
Chuck