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It's all very well hearing about how cool our training classes our from *us*, but what do attendees like you think? I recently did an
It's all very well hearing about how cool our training classes our from *us*, but what do attendees like you think? I recently did an
Last week I kicked off a survey about network latencies and database mirroring. See here for the original post. Here are the results of the
In my survey for this week I'm interested in what you look for first when analyzing a query plan. I'll report on the results around
Last week I kicked off a survey about how you monitor your database mirroring sessions. See here for the original post. Here are the results
I'm going to do two surveys this week. In this one I want to know what the relationship is like between the DBA team and
In my survey for this week, I'd like to know what you what the network latency is between your mirroring principal and mirror servers, and
I was doing some research this morning for some query tuning on a client system and I came across a couple of blog series with
(Edit 7/11/13: We’ve given out all our current user group swag – thanks) Anywhere in the world? If you do and you’d like a SQLskills
Wow! We had 35 entries in 5 days for our competition to win a free seat at our Master Immersion Event on Internals and Performance
In my survey for this week, I'd like to know what you monitor if you're using database mirroring. [Edit: The survey has closed now. See
Just before Christmas last year I created a survey to ask you what your job title is and additionally, if you wanted, what you actually
We’re really excited about the classes we’ve got coming up and to say ‘thank you’ to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com
The January 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
PASS 2010 was a resounding success – the best ever PASS according to most. We at SQLskills.com have even more reason to celebrate as it
The spring conferences are creeping up on us and there will be four of us at SQL Connections in Orlando, March 27-30 (me, Kimberly, Bob, and
I’ve been doing a lot of performance tuning work over the last couple of months and this weekend found something that’s very pervasive out in
At the end of December I showed you how to discover if power saving is enabled on your server, which can lead to variable and
This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being run by newly-minted fellow-MVP Jen McCown (blog|twitter) and the topic is about resolutions. And specifically about resolutions around technology you've been
I've noticed a few new SQL blogs spring up over the last month or so and someone asked me on Facebook this morning about linking
The final set of MCM training videos we recorded for Microsoft have been posted on TechNet and are available for download. For your convenience, I've
The last post of the year! It's been an excellent year all round – I thought that instead of doing a long post about goals
In 2009 I read a whopping 100 books (see my wrap-up post) and it seemed at times like I spent every waking moment reading, so
(Yes, I know I haven’t editorialized the last survey on What’s in a Job Title – I will in the New Year.) Over the last
We’d like to thank you all for reading all our stuff all year, for coming to our classes and conference sessions, and for being our
There's been a lot of discussion on the MVP distribution list about various certifications and what SQL Server roles they cater to. Furthermore, there's a
Happy Holidays! Back in January I ran a special offer on our new (at the time) auditing service, and as the holidays approach I'd like
After a lot of fine-tuning, we’ve come up with a comprehensive training curriculum to satisfy those looking for comprehensive SQL Server training. We’ve designed four
(Check out my comprehensive library of all wait types and latch classes.) [Last updated: March 21, 2026] How many times have you walked up to
This is the last (and longest) post of my bald eagle shots from last week in Haines, Alaska. I'm calling this one "the many faces
Two more blog posts to go – this one has my favorite flight shots from the week. All photos were taken in RAW at 5184×3456
Today we got really up-close-and-personal with the bald eagles up here in Haines, AK. It was a toasty 22F out on the river delta but
This week Kimberly and I are in Haines, AK honing our photography skills using the numerous bald eagles as subjects. We're up here with photo-pro
A few people have asked over the last few days how Kimberly and I have SSMS set up for presenting so I thought I'd do
Last Tuesday I hosted T-SQL Tuesday #012 (see here for the call for participation) and posed the question "why are DBA skills necessary?" This month
This morning at PASS our good friend Joseph Sack, who runs the SQL Server Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) program, announced some sweeping changes to the
We like to keep our class sizes limited to around 30 so that everyone gets a chance to ask all the questions they want and
Yesterday on Twitter a few people expressed disgust at a conference slide listing transactional replication as a high-availability (HA) technology. I took exception to that
The November 2010 edition of TechNet Magazine is now available on the web and contains my latest feature article. In this article I give my top-10
I’ve recently been creating some content about wait stats analysis and I think it would be really interesting to see what kind of waits people
In November we're doing T-SQL Tuesday a week early (Tuesday November 2nd) so that it doesn't clash with PASS and I'll be your host! What is T-SQL
Back when I did the DBA-Myth-A-Day series in April, many people asked for the 30 blog posts to be collected up into a document for
Yes, it's that time again. We're just about to have the Fall show so its time to start planning for the Spring 2011 show. Once again Kimberly
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being run by fellow-MVP Sankar Reddy (blog|twitter) and the topic is about Misconceptions in SQL Server. (Check out the 60-page PDF
Another quickie today. Don't ask why, but this morning I was trying to programmatically work out which tables have foreign-key references to table Sales, because
A quickie… this morning I've been writing a bunch of T-SQL code (yes, occasionally I'm allowed to do that :-) and I needed to programmatically check
Time is running out to sign up for our BI class in Bellevue, WA in a couple of weeks… there are some spots left so
It's been six weeks or so since I posted anything technical here – my summer vacation from being online, and your summer vacation from having
It's official! We're doing another 5-day SQL Immersion Event (our ever-popular SQL Server master-class) this year in the US! Through popular demand we've decided to put
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