Archive for October, 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. To help promote women in technology, I’m declaring the fourth Wednesday of each [...]

October 24, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Professional Development  No Comments

SQL Audit – User-defined Audit Events

One thing I failed to touch on during my series on SQL Audit was the use of user-defined events in audits. This was brought to my attention in a comment by one of my readers. He was trying to make use of user-defined events and was having a problem getting the output to actually write [...]

October 18, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Features  No Comments

SQLSaturday #171 Pittsburgh recap

This past weekend I made the drive from Cleveland to Pittsburgh to attend SQLSaturday #171.В  They picked the perfect time of year to host this event, the leaves changing color made for a really pretty drive. The Event The weekend started with the speaker dinner, held inside the Rivers Casino.В  It was an evening of [...]

October 9, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Professional Development  2 Comments