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Rodney Landrum has been architecting solutions for SQL Server for over 10 years. He has worked with and written about many SQL Server technologies, including DTS, Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. He has authored three books on Reporting Services including his most recent 2008 edition for Apress. He is a regular contributor to SQL Server magazine and Simple-talk.com, where he blogs on about things like spiders, beer, somnambulance and SQL. His three recent articles in SQL Server magazine on building a DBA repository with SSIS and SSRS have been well received and implemented widely by DBAs around the world. Rodney also speaks regularly on SQL topics at such events as SQL Saturday and the Pensacola SQL Server Users Group. His day job finds him overseeing the health and well being of over 100 SQL Servers as manager of database administration in Pensacola, Florida.
The DBA Script Thumb
by Rodney Landrum | 10 November 2008 |  26 comments |
Like many DBAs, Rodney has squirrelled away a large number of routines that he uses almost daily to check on his servers and databases. Of this large collection he chooses five that he wouldn't want to be without. and there is something for everyone in this DBA's... Read more...
Using SSIS to monitor SQL Server Databases
by Rodney Landrum | 05 June 2008 |  11 comments |
Rodney Landrum is a DBA who manages over eighty SQL Servers. It is a job that requires a great deal of ingenuity. He needed a way of knowing if there were signs of trouble anywhere in his servers. Here he describes how the use of SSIS saved him a great deal of time... Read more...
Doing Eighty Things at Once
by Rodney Landrum | 25 January 2008 |  3 comments |
Rodney Landrum is a SQL Server DBA for a large company, with at least eighty SQL Servers to look after. He is now a great fan of SQL Multiscript and explains why ... Read more...
Changing Service Credentials
by Rodney Landrum | 05 September 2007 |  5 comments |
One day, you may need to change those service credentials under which your SQL Server services normally run. If you have a number of servers, then you'll really want to read about Rodney's solution. Read more...
Temporarily Changing an Unknown Password of the sa Account
by Rodney Landrum | 10 July 2007 |  21 comments |
You are asked for the sa password for a SQL Server in order to perform a software upgrade. You, the DBA, don't know the password and it's not documented. Rodney Landrum provides a way out of this dilemma, demonstrating two techniques for temporarily changing the... Read more...
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