1. PASS Community News August 2014

2. Planning on attending PASS Summit 2014? Start saving today! The world’s largest gathering of SQL Server & BI professionals Take your SQL Server skills to the next level by learning from the world’s SQL Server experts, in 190+ technical sessions Over 5000 attendees, representing 2000 companies, from 52 countries, ready to network & learn Ask your Chapter Leader how to save $150 off registration! $1,895 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

3. PASS Virtual Chapters Listing Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters: Application Development Big Data Book Readers Business Analytics Business Intelligence Cloud Data Architecture Database Administration DBA Fundamentals Excel BI Healthcare High Availability and Disaster Recovery InMemory Master Data\Data Quality Oracle SQL Performance Powershell Professional Development Security Virtualization Women in Technology Global Chinese Global French Global Hebrew Global Italian Global Portuguese Global Russian Global Spanish

4. Virtual Chapter Meetings – June VIRTUAL CHAPTERMEETINGTOPIC DBA FundamentalsAug 1 11:00– 12:00 (UTC -06:00)Rolling Upgraders, The Easy Way presented by Argenis Fernandez Global SpanishAug 6 12:00-12:30 (UTC -05:00)Los caso de uso para In-Memory OLTP presented by Warner Chaves Global HebrewAug 10 17:30-18:30 (UTC -05:00)Take your SQL Server development process forward! presented by Itai Binyamin Professional Development Aug 12 12:00-13:00 (UTC -05:00)Bridging the Communication gap between DBA and Developer presented by Robert Davis High Availability and Disaster Recovery Aug 12 12:00-13:00 (UTC -06:00)Mirroring Start to Finish presented by Ryan Adams Global SpanishAug 13 12:00-13:00 (UTC -05:00)7 Ideas on Encouraging Advanced Analytics presented by Andrei Garzon

5. Virtual Chapter Meetings – June VIRTUAL CHAPTERMEETINGTOPIC Business IntelligenceAug 15 19:00-20:00 (UTC -00:00)Continuous Integration for Reporting Services presented by Nat Sundar DBA FundamentalsAug 19 11:00-12:00 (UTC -06:00)The Roadmap to Better Performance: Reading Query Plans presented by Erin Stellato Global SpanishAug 20 12:00-12:30 (UTC -05:00)Fundamentos sobre lost indices end SQL presented by Enrique Puig Global RussianAug 29 15:00-16:30 (UTC +03:00)SSIS - Повышение производительности обработки потоков данных Global FrenchAug 29 20:00-21:00 (UTC +01:00)Power BI Hybride avec la Passerelle de Gestion de Données presented by Jean- Pierre Riehl Business AnalyticsAug 21 12:00-13:00 (UTC -05:00)Looking Through the Windshield: Creating forward-looking Dashboards and KPI’s presented by Brian Larson

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10. TriSQL User Group Special Thanks to those that helped get this group started. Steve Turner David Walker Jane Matheson BCTI for providing the meeting space and lunch All of the sponsors from which I acquired SWAG

11. TriSQL User Group We will meet the second Tuesday of every month, Locations are still being determined. Next month we are back here at BCTI We are looking for speakers. Have a topic you feel passionate about? Let us know! Officer Positions – if you are interested in helping to run the group, we will have officer elections at the next meeting

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13. So, You Inherited a Database David Easley Database Administrator Babcock and Wilcox

14. Questions to ask What is the database used for? Who has access to it? Is that access required? Are there any special requirements for access to the database? HIPPA, SOX, Etc. Is it fully patched? If not can it be? What is the acceptable downtime and/or data loss? Does the architecture and backup schedule meet these needs? Is the database external facing? If so, how is it protected. How is the overall Server Health? Are there organizational standards that have not been met? Is the Server correctly configured to alert on errors? What Questions would you add?

15. Triage using sp_blitz by Brent Ozar Script can be downloaded from www.brentozar.com/sp_blitzwww.brentozar.com/sp_blitz Sp_blitz gives quick insight into your server to see what issues you should start looking at in a prioritized manner. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE CHANGED. You must evaluate for your environment Once you have fixed the issues that need to be addressed, save a copy of the results to compare future runs to, I would recommend running at least every 6 months or so(and check to make sure you have any updates to sp_blitz) DEMO

16. Create a Central Management Server DEMO Things to remember: TSQL needs to be written in a way that all responding servers use the same format You cannot add the CMS server to itself Servers can be in multiple groups( I have groups by environment and server edition) and you can connect to parent groups

17. IDERA SQL Check Available from http://www.idera.com/productssolutions /freetools/sqlcheck http://www.idera.com/productssolutions /freetools/sqlcheck Provides 20 different metrics into your sql server DEMO Other free tools

18. Ola Hallengren Maintenance Scripts Scripts available on http://ola.hallengren.com/http://ola.hallengren.com/ Highly recommended as the basis for your maintenance scripts. DEMO

19. SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Available from https://www.sqlsentry.com/products/plan- explorer/sql-server-query-view https://www.sqlsentry.com/products/plan- explorer/sql-server-query-view Much more powerful, flexible and usable than the SSMS built in execution plan viewer DEMO

20. Questions?