Charley Hanania

Free MDX Training in Zurich

Charley Hanania — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:22:00 GMT

Microsoft Switzerland has a full day Seminar prepared titled: "Introduction to MDX with Chris Webb" its on the 16th of March 2010 at the MS Campus (Richtistrasse 3, 8304 Wallisellen) Details: Registration: 08:30, Seminar start 09:00, End 16...(read more)

Breaking into the DBA space

Charley Hanania — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:58:00 GMT

I love helping people, I love to teach and I really love hearing about success stories from people in my past whom I've interacted with, had the chance to help out through eith a course, tutorial or just a few helpful hints to get them started in...(read more)

Moderating Hour 16 of the 24 Hours of PASS...

Charley Hanania — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:46:00 GMT

Well, it was great, I attended around 12 of the 24 Hours of PASS Virtual event sessions yesterday and the quality of the content, the preparedness of the speakers and overall lack of issues was incredible! Hats off to Rick Heiges , Blythe Morrow , Chuck...(read more)

SQL Server Saturday - Swiss Style!

Charley Hanania — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:57:00 GMT

There are many SQL Server Saturday type events happening in the US, but this is the first we've attempted to host here. Its been a "handfull" to organise to say the least, but enjoyable nonetheless. Its taking place on the 19th of September...(read more)

Register for 24 Hours of Super SQL Server and BI Training!

Charley Hanania — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:24:00 GMT

As more than 2,700 people from over 60 countries around the world get ready for the most value-packed 24 hours of SQL Server and Business Intelligence training available, PASS wanted to thank you for your amazing support and give you some final 24 Hours...(read more)

Powershell Series #1: Setting up Powershell

Charley Hanania — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:54:00 GMT

OK, first things first... I have SQL Server 2008 installed locally (developer edition) on Vista, which I believe installs Powershell for you as a component... I'm using V1.0. The easiest way to see if its installed it to use the "run" command...(read more)

And here starts the Powershell Series...

Charley Hanania — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Most DBA's have a hard time coming to terms with programming languages, and although I've used close to 10 in my history I've always defaulted back to my tried and trusted T-SQL to cater for my data-focussed needs... A while back now though...(read more)

SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

Charley Hanania — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:45:00 GMT

The Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism Team has put together a training Kit on SQL Server 2008 Covering the following: Date and Time Types Filestream Grouping Sets Reporting Services Row Constructors Spatial Data SQL CLR Table-Valued Parameters...(read more)

Swiss IT Pro User Group Meeting July 2009 : Virtualization - What's New (VMware / Microsoft)

Charley Hanania — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:59:00 GMT

We've got the information for next month's User Group Meeting, Channelled through SwissITPro this month. Theme: Virtualization - What's New ( VMware / Microsoft ) Language: Deutsch Tuesday / Dienstag - 7 July / Juli 2009 17:45 - 21:00 Uhr...(read more)

Re-post from The Microsoft Learning Community and Evangelism Team Blog - free Microsoft Certification voucher

Charley Hanania — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:54:00 GMT

For those of you who have enlisted or who are still to enlist for my help to get you through the SQL Server exams on SQL Server 2005/2008, look at this poast as it could get you an exam voucher to give you even more motivation to get through all the study...(read more)

SQL Management Studio Snapshot Add-In

Charley Hanania — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:02:00 GMT

I attended a talk the other day and the speaker was showing SQL Server Potentials and Professionals alike on how easy it was to manage SQL Server from Management Studio. One of the areas emarrasingly was creating Database Snapshots. The presenter looked...(read more)

Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices Whitepaper for SQL Server

Charley Hanania — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:31:00 GMT

We've been discussing this for so long and warning Sys Admins about making sure our servers are in proper good nic before handing over to us for the SQL install and config. So rather than just talking about it, we can point them to a whitepaper on...(read more)

Backing up Sharepoint Databases for True Point in Time Recovery

Charley Hanania — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:32:00 GMT

I've been working on a whitepaper for Quest (for a while) which focusses on Sharepoint Recoverability from a DBA's perspective. As you proably know Sharepoint uses SQL Server to store its data, and although the data structures and usage within...(read more)

Failover Clustering and Virtualization - Update from MS CSS

Charley Hanania — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:58:00 GMT

Virtualisation and Failover Clustering wasn't one of the options you had for SQL Server previously, but Bob Ward has just updated a KB with details on the change of stance and why its now supported :) In reading my blog, you'll know that I'm...(read more)

New Swiss PASS Chapter Logo

Charley Hanania — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:50:00 GMT

The brief was to create a logo for the Chapter that represented Swissness as well as being part of PASS. Something subtle, yet effective. We had 29 respondants submit 49 entries over the course of 7 days and there were some really good entries in there...(read more)