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Comment on Let’s Meetup [Updated]! by John Sterrett

John Sterrett — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:59:32 +0000

Likewise, I look forward to seeing you Jonathan.

Comment on Let’s Meetup [Updated]! by Jonathan Gardner

Jonathan Gardner — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:20:47 +0000

John,

We are very much looking forward to having you at SQL Saturday Houston. See you this weekend.

Comment on #tsql2day – Contained Databases are sexy and they know it! by johnsterrett

johnsterrett — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:06:53 +0000

@DugiDBA thank you for the comment. I am glad to read to that you enjoyed the blog post.

Comment on #tsql2day – Contained Databases are sexy and they know it! by Dukagjin Maloku

Dukagjin Maloku — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:54:40 +0000

Thanks for the simple explanation of this new feature in SQL Server 2012!
@DugiDBA

Comment on Changing SQL Server Job Owners against the SQL Server Enterprise by Margaret Westrell

Margaret Westrell — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:00:18 +0000

Thanks, John!

I realize this post is old, but I found it useful. Wanted to mention one issue I encountered that others may also have.

A few months ago, a DBA left our shop. It appears that when his account was deleted from Active Directory, ownership of a few jobs he had set up under his account changed to NULL. To find jobs with no owner, I tweaked your scripts:

Find Owners: changed the inner join to a left outer join.

Change Owner: changed the inner join to a left outer join and changed the WHERE clause to “WHERE (ISNULL(l.name, ”) like @OldName”.

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday: What’s Currently Running? by johnsterrett

johnsterrett — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:50:28 +0000

Great catch Scott. I have updated the query above to include your update.

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday: What’s Currently Running? by Scott Caldwell

Scott Caldwell — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:00:07 +0000

John,

Nice query. I would use “where is_user_process = 1″ instead of “where session_id > 50″. There are cases, especially on large servers with soft numa, database mirroring (lots of db), service broker (lots of tasks), etc, where this won’t hold true. It used to be 100% reliable but not so much anymore.

Thanks,

Scott

Comment on 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training by johnsterrett

johnsterrett — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:49:23 +0000

Mark,

That’s a very good point. I will add a link to Aaron Nelson’s PowerShell script to download the MCM training videos tonight. Also, while I am at it I should include the PASS Virtual Chapters.

Everyone, am I missing anything else?

Comment on 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training by Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:41:40 +0000

Don’t forget SQL Server MCM certification training videos available free online!

Comment on Speaking at the Columbus SQL Server User Group by Chris

Chris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:42:36 +0000

Awesome stuff man, I actually have to do this in the near future. Appreciate the insight!!