I’m very proud to announce that I have been selected to participate in the 2016-2017 Idera ACE program. This means I’ll be able to participate and mentor others in the #sqlfamily more than ever before! My first event as an Idera ACE will be SQL Saturday, Lincoln NE. I’ll also be traveling to Washington, DC […]
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Received the PASS Outstanding Volunteer Award
PASS is the Professional Association for SQL Server and is a Worldwide Organization with about 250,000 members. This is the 2nd time I’ve received this award, and I’m one of only 2 people to ever be awarded the designation more than once. I was also awarded this designation in June of 2015. It will be announced […]
Using Powershell to set Roles & Features required for MDS
This is my 3rd go-around installing MDS on SQL Server. I’ve been playing with it on each of the new SQL 2016 RC builds. Today I’m once again standing it up. Hey, practice makes perfect! One of the first things that needs to happen in order to get MDS up and running is that the […]
Automatically Deleting a Job
On a project my team was working on recently, we wanted to run a stored procedure every 10 minutes for 2 days to collect data over time. At the end of the 2 days, we would FTP the results up to a folder and remove any evidence that we had been on the server (clean up […]