Presenting “Performance Issue Patterns” at the PASSMN Minnesota SQL Server User Group

If you’re in town (Minneapolis/St. Paul) – just a heads-up that I’ll be presenting at the next PASSMN meeting on Tuesday, August 20th (scheduled from 4PM to 6PM).  This will be located at Microsoft, 3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600 Edina, MN  55437. Here is what I’ll be presenting: Title: Performance Issue Patterns Description: While […]

New Article on SQLPerformance.com: “Observer Overhead and Wait Type Symptoms”

My 7th guest blog post was published today on SQLPerformance.com: Observer Overhead and Wait Type Symptoms This article details seven test scenarios I performed in order to see what wait-type symptoms (if any) arise based on different types of “observer overhead” due to concurrently running SQL Trace and XE sessions.