SQL Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in August!
It's official! We're doing another 5-day SQL Immersion Event (our ever-popular SQL Server master-class) this year in the US! We decided to put on a
It's official! We're doing another 5-day SQL Immersion Event (our ever-popular SQL Server master-class) this year in the US! We decided to put on a
It's been a while since we had a vacation (and more than a year since we last went diving!!) so tomorrow we're off for a couple
The top things YOU need to know about managing SQL Server – in one place, on one day – presented by two
I was teaching an internals/maintenance/performance class for Microsoft DBAs this week on the Redmond campus and one of the students (thanks Crystal!) showed me a
[Edit January 2015: Everything in this post applies to SQL Server 2012 and 2014 still.] This blog post is part of the monthly T-SQL Tuesday
This evening I was reading an article in The Washington Post called Twelve Things The World Should Toss Out and it inspired me to start a
In the previous post in the series I introduced SSDs to the mix and examined the relative performance of storing a transaction log on an
The May edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the latest installment of my regular SQL Q&A column. This month's
Well it's been almost 6 weeks since my last benchmarking blog post as I got side-tracked with the Myth-a-Day series and doing real work for clients :-)
I’m starting a new blog category to talk about some of weird and confusing stuff I see while query tuning. First up is the case
Here's yet another reason to be very careful when using the missing index DMVs… There's a bug in the missing index DMVs that could end
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