Brent [Ozar] beat me to the punch this morning with his fantastic post on SQLintersection’s Fall conference here: SQL Intersection Registration Open – and a $100 Off Code! but, I wanted to second that with a few more details. I first blogged about our new [in 2013] conference here: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/sqlintersection-new-conference/ and when we had only just planned our [...]

Happy Holidays from everyone at SQLskills! (although, only Kimberly and Paul were stupid enough to be recorded singing this)… Listen here (audio only): http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/content/binary/MerryChristmas.wav (but don't say I didn't warn you. And, it is completely office safe! ;-) Enjoy, kt

Paul and I will be teaching a week-long public Immersion Event in Dublin, September 21-25, in partnership with our good friends at Prodata and Microsoft Ireland. The class will cover: Day 1: SQL Server Internals (On-disk structures, index internals, logging, recovery, transaction log architecture) Day 2: Designing for Performance (data types, table and index partitioning) Day [...]

Hey there everyone – Out of curiosity, can you let me know (via comments to this blog entry) what version you’re using in production? AND – why? I guess I’d like to know some of the many reasons that you are staying with SQL Server 6.x or 7.0, if not SQL Server 2000 or SQL [...]

Well, it’s a small country – but with a huge population of SQL Server users – especially as far as ratios go! This week I’ve been in Reykjavik, Iceland delivering my second SQL Server Immersion Event on SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization which was hosted by my friends at Miracle Iceland. fyi – I [...]

Well, I’m not one to rant really but I have to tell you that you wouldn’t believe the comedy of errors that all fell together during my 31 hours of travel from my house in Redmond, WA to the hotel in the Babin Kuk area of Dubrovnik, Croatia. My original itinerary was SEA (Seattle) to [...]