Archive for September, 2012
WIT Wednesday
On the fourth Wednesday of each month, the Women in Technology Virtual Chapter of PASS has its monthly conference call to discuss and plan upcoming WIT activities, be it SQL Saturday WIT panels or the WIT luncheon at the annual PASS Summit.В To help promote women in technology, I’m declaring the fourth Wednesday of each [...]
September 26, 2012
Tags: PASS, SQL Server, WIT, Women in Technology Posted in: Professional Development 
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Parsing Windows event logs with PowerShell
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of using PowerShell to parse the Windows event logs and possibly adding that to my Inventory scripts. I like the idea of pulling out the important errors and messages into a central place for easy viewing/reporting. Depending on what platform you’re running on, there are a couple of [...]
September 20, 2012
Tags: powershell, SQL Server Posted in: Powershell 5 Comments
SQLSaturday #160 – Get your SQL learn on in Kalamazoo
If you’re planning on being in the Kalamazoo, MI area this weekend, or just feel like taking a road trip, come on out to SQLSaturday #160 at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.В There are some fantastic speakers lined up, including Brent Ozar, Jeff Moden, Eddie Wuerch (giving a 2-part series on SQL Server Internals that I’m [...]
September 17, 2012
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SQLSaturday #171, Pittsburgh
Date: October 6, 2012 Title: Searching for the Holy Grail of DDL Auditing Abstract: Who altered this view and how? When was that index created? What happened to my stored procedure? From SQL Trace to SQL Audit and everything in between, we’ll explore various methods of auditing events in SQL Server, how they work, and [...]
September 16, 2012
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