Allen White

Published again!

Wow, it's been a while since I've blogged, but it's been a REALLY busy six weeks!

Early in March I presented a session at the Ohio North SQL Server User's Group meeting on PowerShell and SQL Server. I'll follow up with the sample SMO scripts I built for the presentation in the next couple of days.

Last week I taught a Business Intelligence (BI) Bootcamp at my company. I covered three three-day classes, one on Reporting Services, one in Integration Services and one on Analysis Services, in one week. The preparation was incredible, and the eight people in my class (it was an internal class not open to the public) told me they got a lot out of it. I was exhausted at the end of it, though.

Late in the week I recieved an email from Tony Davis (of the Simple Talk newsletter) that my first of three articles on using SMO to generate SQL Server maintenance jobs was published to their site. It can be accessed at http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/backup-and-recovery/automate-your-database-maintenance-using-smo/.

Also, as Will Parker sings in Oklahoma!:
I got to Kansas City on a Friday,
By Saturday I l'arned a thing or two.

I ran the Olathe Marathon on Saturday, March 31. I finished. It wasn't pretty, but I finished. I'd also like to thank Rick Heiges for putting together the March Madness pool. I did really well in the early going, and would have won had my Buckeyes hit about half the three-pointers they shot!

Examples of using SMO from PowerShell tomorrow.

Allen