SQL Server Tacklebox- P2: This book, as with almost all books, started out as an idea. I wanted to accumulate together those scripts and tools that I have built over the years so that DBAs could sort through them and perhaps adapt them for their own circumstances. | Chapter 8 Finding data Causes of Consequences of Fighting Seeking out About the author Rodney Landrum has been working with SQL Server technologies for longer than he can remember he turned 40 in May of 2009 so his memory is going . He writes regularly about many SQL Server technologies including Integration Services Analysis Services and Reporting Services. He has authored three books on Reporting Services. He is a regular contributor to SQL Server Magazine and Simple-Talk the latter of which he sporadically blogs on about SQL and his plethora of geek tattoos. His day job finds him overseeing the health and well-being of a large SQL Server infrastructure in Pensacola Florida. He swears he owns the expression Working with Databases on a Day to Day Basis and anyone who disagrees is itching to arm wrestle. Rodney is also a SQL Server MVP. About the technical REVIEWER Shawn McGehee is a full-time professional DBA and a part-time amateur developer from Pensacola Florida. He is very active with the local SQL users group in Pensacola and helps organize speaks regularly at their events. Shawn is also a contributing writer to popular SQL websites such as Simple Talk and SQL Server Central. He was also a co-author of the book Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. vi Acknowledgements I would like to thank everyone involved in the making of this book peripherally and personally but first and foremost Karla. .my love who has been with me spurred me on and understood when I needed a fishing or beer respite through 5 books now. I love you. To all my kids who also sacrificed during the writing of this book. Megan Ethan Brendan and Taylor. Well OK Ethan did not sacrifice so much but he did help me understand that Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a legitimate sentence. Thanks to my Mom and Dad as always. I love you. There will still
