Clustering SQL Server on Virtual Machines (Round 2)
Recently there was lengthy discussion on the #sqlhelp hash tag on Twitter about clustering SQL Server on VMs and whether or not that was a
Recently there was lengthy discussion on the #sqlhelp hash tag on Twitter about clustering SQL Server on VMs and whether or not that was a
My latest article on SQLPerformance.com was published yesterday and highlights the potential for performance problems while using the default configuration of SQL Server 2012 using
My latest article on SQL Server Central was published live today. This article shows how to use Event Notifications to monitor and alert on database
I have been so busy this week that I didn’t get a chance to blog about this yesterday when it happened, but I had a
After my last post, I was contacted by email about the usefulness of query_hash in actual troubleshooting scenarios since the query_hash value is based on
One of the features of the Extended Events UI in SQL Server 2012 is the ability to export an event session definition out to a
This spring at SQL Connections, I presented a pre-conference seminar with Kimberly on the new features in SQL Server 2012, including Availability Groups. While on
For a few weeks now, there has been a long running thread on SQL Server Central about UPDATE operations that don't perform any changes because
If you are creating an Availability Group in SQL Server 2012 using the New Availability Group Wizard in SQL Server Management Studio, you might not
This blog post is courtesy of a question I received from Chris Adkin (Twitter) by email. Chris was trying to use Extended Events to track
If you don’t already know it, I love query the plan cache in SQL Server to identify problems that might exist in a server. I’ve
My latest article on Simple-Talk was published recently. In this article I dig into how to track allocation bitmap contention in tempdb in SQL Server
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