Past Insider Newsletters and Other Content

Here are all the Insider Newsletters we've done in the past for you to enjoy! March 18th, 2013 - Why shrink may run so slowly and demo video on moving from SQL Trace to XEvents March 4th, 2013 - The benefits of multiple filegroups and demo video on the system_health XEvent session February 18th, 2013 - CXPACKET waits, SQLIntersection conference, and demo video on distributed query plan quality February 4th, 2013 - Undocumented commands and demo video on Microsoft Data Link January 21st, 2013 - Deferred deallocation and demo video on sys.dm_db_stats_properties January 7th, 2013 - SQL Server resolutions and demo video on recreating missing log files on attach December 10th, 2012 - High-availability strategy requirements and demo video on indexing strategies November 26th, 2012 - Application performance tuning and demo video on Windows Server 2012 Task Manager November 12th, 2012 - Monitoring mirroring and demo video on regaining instance access without downtime October 29th, 2012 - Extended Events and demo video on regaining instance access without the sysadmin role October 15th, 2012 - Performance baselining and video on EXECUTE AS and SQL injection October 1st, 2012 - Crash recovery and demo video on setting PerfMon default counters September 17th, 2012 - Provisioning new hardware, 2013 Immersion Events, and cardinality-estimate issues September 4th, 2012 - SQLskills training online, taking risks, and SQL Agent cluster failover August 20th, 2012 - Finding and removing duplicate indexes August 6th, 2012 - Being too thinly spread and demo video on DBCC CHECKDB and rolled-back transactions July 23rd, 2012 - Paralyzing fear of change and demo video 3 on Distributed Replay July 9th, 2012 - Certification changes and demo video 2 on Distributed Replay June 25th, 2012 - Home-grown DBAs and demo video on Distributed Replay June 11th, 2012 - SQLskills online training, virus recovery, and demo video on semantic search May 28th, 2012 - Reinventing the wheel and demo video on the SSMS Tools Pack May 14th, 2012 - Avoiding quicksand and demo video on wait statistics April 30th, 2012 - Dealing with system databases and demo video on Process Explorer April 16th, 2012 - Default blame acceptors and demo video on 2012 Extended Events UI April 3rd, 2012 - Re-evaluating operational practices and video on snapshot isolation March 19th, 2012 - Hidden gems in your team and demo video on Plan Explorer March 5th, 2012 - The value of certifications and demo video on SQL Nexus February 20th, 2012 - Incorrect consistency checking and demo video on PerfMon tricks February 6th, 2012 - Problematic vendor configuration guidance and demo video on the free PAL tool January 23rd, 2012 - Getting past 'the answer' and lecture video on indexing strategies January 9th, 2012 - Learning about SQL Server and demo video on troubleshooting common VM issues December 26th, 2011 - Work-life balance, 2012 UK classes and video on communication skills December 12th, 2011 - Making use of automation and demo video on deadlock debugging November 28th, 2011 - Bigger hardware is NOT always a good solution and demo/lecture video on partitioning November 14th, 2011 - Outside-the-box with Resource Governor and demo video on query timeout debugging October 31st, 2011 - Blocking without locking and demo video on deadlock analysis October 17th, 2011 - Partitioning fundamentals and demo video on tempdb space tracking October 3rd, 2011 - Automated SQL features and demo video on fully logged operations September 20th, 2011 - Common temp table misuse and demo video on the inconsistent analysis problem September 4th, 2011 - Instance-wide fillfactor and demo videos on corruption recovery August 21st, 2011 - Data center recovery and demo video on error log management August 7th, 2011 - Corruption response and demo video on tail-log backups July 24th, 2011 - Backup testing and demo video on undroppable log files July 10th, 2011 - Pros and cons of upgrading and demo video on database snapshots June 26th, 2011 - Log record removal and demo video on wait stats for a single operation June 12th, 2011 - Normalization and demo video on tempdb latch contention May 29th, 2011 - Communication and demo video on trusting the tools May 15th, 2011 - (Un)trustworthy information and demo video on checkpoint tracking May 5th, 2011 - Head-in-the-sand log management and demo video on nested transactions April 21st, 2011 - Cloud overload and demo video on log file performance analysis April 7th, 2011 - Guarantees, Polar Bears, and demo video on undocumented DBCC commands March 22nd, 2011 - Knee-jerk performance tuning and demo video on SELECT-INTO logging March 9th, 2011 - SSDs and fragmentation, and demo video on RESTORE WITH RESTART And here is the myths and misconceptions whitepaper. If at any time you'd like to unsubscribe, please click HERE. Thanks and best regards, Paul and Kimberly