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Allen is a SQL Server Trainer for Scalability Experts, a leading provider of scalable solutions, training and services based on Microsoft SQL Server. He's spent over 30 years in IT, including operations, development, telecommunications, network admin and database design and administration. He's been using SQL Server since 1992 and is certified MCITP:Database Administrator, MCITP: Database Developer and MCT. Allen has been awarded Microsoft's MVP Award for his work in the SQL Server community for the last two years. He's active in the Ohio North SQL Server User's Group and contributes in the MSDN Forums, answering questions about SMO and PowerShell, and maintains a blog at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/default.aspx.
Let PowerShell do an Inventory of your Servers
by Allen White | 13 February 2009 |  14 comments |
If you run a regular and comprehensive inventory of all the servers you manage, you can solve problems more quickly and answer most questions from management. If you then repeat these reports over a time period, it helps to to track trends such as disk space usage... Read more...
Automate your Database Integrity checks using SMO
by Allen White | 15 September 2007 |  4 comments |
Allen White shows how to use Visual Basic to create simple routines that use SMO for inserting and deleting jobs from SQL Server Agent and for creating or deleting stored procedures in SQL Server. Read more...
Alert-based Transaction Log Backups - Automate your database Maintenance Part 2
by Allen White | 20 April 2007 |  3 comments |
Part 2 of Allen White's "SQL Server Automation" series demonstrates how to use 'performance condition' alerts for more effective database log backups during periods of high database activity. Read more...
Automate your Database Maintenance using SMO
by Allen White | 05 April 2007 |  6 comments |
The most important thing you can do as a database administrator is perform regular database maintenance. This includes regular backups, database integrity checks and optimizations. In Part 1 of a three article series, Allen White shows how to automate the backup of... Read more...
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