(Check out my online training courses: SQL Server: Detecting and Correcting Database Corruption and SQL Server: Advanced Corruption Recovery Techniques. We can also help you with disaster recovery.) One of
Yesterday morning I was tagged in a blog post by my very good friend Buck Woody (twitter|blog), wondering how I travel (and by extension, how
A couple of weeks ago, Kimberly and I spent a week on the *excellent* live-aboard dive boat Cayman Aggressor IV, diving off Grand Cayman, Little
The 20-page whitepaper I wrote this Spring for the SQL team has just been published. This whitepaper is titled Proven SQL Server Architectures for High
Next Wednesday, June 9th, I'll be presenting at the monthly meeting of the PASS DBA virtual chapter. The Live Meeting starts at 11am PST and
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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For about 6 months we'd bee trying to hook up online with SharePoint MVP Hilton Geisenow for an interview but unfortunately the bandwidth to South Africa is
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Over the last few months there's been some noise (mostly of my making) on Twitter about the number of VLFs in transsction logs. Given the
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Just when I thought I'd discovered all the online networks that could successfully prevent me from doing useful work, I re-discovered LinkedIn this morning after
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We enjoyed Dublin so much in 2008 and 2009 that we're going back for two weeks this time – and teaching three classes while we're
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Yes, it's that time again. We've just completed the Spring show so its time to start planning for the Fall 2010 show. Once again Kimberly and I
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