Hm, looks like I didn’t post show notes for episode 2.08, sorry bout that…brief notes for 2.08:

• 10-22-10, 38 groupies.
• SQL Saturday #56 BI impending…
• InapproPASS
• Jen’s Cornhole. (ew)
• Interview idiot (this was a nice series of blogs on DBARant)
• Database misconceptions
• More vendor issues
• SCOMBAG
• Potential show titles included “Bros Before Hardware”, “Data Source of All Evil”, and “Joe Celko’s Wife Walks Into a Bar…”

Show 2.07 is up, and the preview for show 2.08 – “What Kind of Pistol?” – is up.  Now, on to tonight’s show, which was A-W-E-S-O-M-E, and is titled “Your Face or Mine?”:

• 10/29/2010, 42 Groupies
• SQL Saturday 56 recap
• How the MidnightDBA’s will ROCK the PASS Summit this year – including the Monday Groupie meetup
• Vendor doing auto shrink
• Golden Shower: Ultra Spec cables – amazing customer service!
• Keynotes – are they worth it?
• SSMS wish – disconnected query window
• New project – finding the right questions
• Idea: New forum, for bitching about vendors.
• Scripting maintenance jobs
• Allan Hirt’s white paper
• Review of Pro SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management, by Ken Simmons (@KenSimmons), Colin Stasiuk (@BenchmarkIT), and Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken), which LINKS TO OUR WEBSITE
• Taking comments out of SPs
• And a LOT of insults and laughter. Even more than usual.

2.09 should be out on or around 11/8, the week of PASS.

Happy days,
Jen