Editorials

Day 30 as DBA, Call for Questions for DBAs

Webcast: Day 30 as DBA
This follow-on to the Day 1 as DBA show will go into the things you can do now that you’re semi-established in your routines. Daily maintenance, auditing, security checks, best practices and more. There is a lot to consider and think about when you’re putting a good foundation in place for your systems, we’ll cover check point items here and keep you up to speed on what’s next.

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> Webcast date: 8/14/2007

Build Out Your Reports and Make The Available… Easily.
You can build reports, make them instantly available over the Internet and give your business users what they need, when they need it. If you are like many DBAs and database pros I know, you spend a lot of time extracting information from the database, figuring out how to present it, then building a report to get that information out to the users. You can improve on this process in amazing ways by using Crystal Reports. You can even upgrade for under $100. Get more information, and a trial copy, here.

Did You See the Latest SelectViews SQL Server Show?
You can watch it here – it’s all about getting started with SSIS. While you’re there, check out all of our other shows in the broadcast center at SSWUG.ORG – there are a LOT of shows, podcasts, video programs, how-to webcasts and a lot more, all available for you there. Check it out here.

Last Call for Your Questions:
(This original call ran last week – this is the last call for questions. We hope to get the survey built and out in the next 2 weeks. Please send your questions right away. Here’s the original posting/request:

What Would You Like To Know About Database Professionals?
We’re getting ready to release our annual survey for database professionals in the next few weeks. We’ll be asking some typical, and some not-so-typical questions to get a feel for what everyone is doing and what you’re all concerned about.

My question to you is – what would YOU like to know on a broad-basis – about what’s happening with database professionals? We’ll pull together questions and take some of the really interesting ones and include them in the survey. We’ll be publishing the overall (generic, non-identifiable) results to SSWUG and I’d like to include several "insightful" questions that would help us define this profession and things we think about these days on a daily basis.

So, drop me a note – let me know what burning question do you have that you’d like to see asked and answered? There will be a prize for the submitter of each question we end up using, so send them in. Please be certain the subject line is "Survey Question" so we can track them.

Email your ideas here.

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