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Friday, December 8, 2017

Come to SQL Saturday Providence!

Tomorrow 12/09/2017 is SQL Saturday #694 in Providence, RI.

I will be presenting by SQL Server Health Check session first thing in the morning:

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Does it Hurt When I Do This? Performing a SQL Server Health Check

Speaker: Andy Galbraith
Duration: 60 minutes
Track: Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment
How often do you review your SQL Servers for basic security, maintenance, and performance issues?  Many of the servers I "inherit" as a managed services provider have quite a few gaping holes. It is not unusual to find databases that are never backed up, servers with constant login failures (is it an attack or a bad connection string?), and servers that need more RAM/CPU/etc. (or sometimes that even have too much!) 

Come learn how to use freely available tools from multiple layers of the SQL Server stack to check your servers for basic issues like missing backups and CheckDB as well as for more advanced issues like page life expectancy problems and improper indexing. If you are responsible in any way for a Microsoft SQL Server (DBA, Windows Admin, even a Developer) you will see value in this session!
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In total there are six tracks with five individual sessions each, so a full day of content!

Registration is still open at https://www.sqlsaturday.com/694/RegisterNow.aspx - come to Bryant University tomorrow and check it out!