Blue Cog Blog » DBA http://www.bluecog.com/blog It's just a freaking blue cog... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:32:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 CbusPASS – November 2009 http://www.bluecog.com/blog/2009/11/13/cbuspass-november-2009/ http://www.bluecog.com/blog/2009/11/13/cbuspass-november-2009/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:24 +0000 Bill Melvin http://www.bluecog.com/blog/?p=477 Last night I attended the CbusPASS (that’s the Columbus chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server, aka the Columbus SQL Server Users Group) meeting. I’m not using SQL Server much these days so the take home value isn’t immediate for me. I’m interested in databases in general, I have used SQL Server in the past, and I expect I will use it even more in the future so I do enjoy these meetings. The remote presentation almost failed due to audio problems but fortunately a member of the group had a notebook PC that worked for both audio and video. Tim Ford presented on SQL Server Dynamic Management Views and Dynamic Management Functions. What follows is basically a link dump from my notes:

Group leader: Jeremiah Peschka, SQL Server Developer
Jeremiah Peschka (peschkaj) on Twitter

Tim Ford’s web site SQLAgentMan
Tim Ford (sqlagentman) on Twitter

Tim writes for MSSQLTips.com, among other things.

Tim said he will post the slides and examples from the presentation at SpeakerRate.

MSDN: Dynamic Management Views and Functions

SQLTeam: Dynamic Management Views

SQLTeam: SQL Server – Find missing and unused indexes

MSDN: Reorganizing and Rebuilding Indexes

Backup your Resource Database.

There was discussion after the meeting about PowerPivot, previously code named Project Gemini, and the PowerPivotPro site.

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