New Pluralsight course: Indexing for Performance
It’s been a while coming but it’s worth the wait! Kimberly’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Indexing for Performance – and it’s a
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It’s been a while coming but it’s worth the wait! Kimberly’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Indexing for Performance – and it’s a
…the second stage of my life ended, when I left Microsoft on August 31st, 2007. The first stage of my life was education, ending in
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
Wow! We had 22 entries for our competition (writing a post is a high bar so I was expecting 20-30) to win a free seat in
We’re really excited about the classes we’ve got coming up in Chicago and to say ‘thank you’ to the SQL community for all your support
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As we head towards our 10th SQLintersection in October, I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and information-packed show yet!
So far this year, we at SQLskills have presented remotely (and a few in-person) to 61 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the world, and
Due to popular demand, we’ve added another class this October (9th-11th) in Chicago: Immersion Event on PowerShell for SQL Server DBAs. We debuted this class in May
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often
A few months ago while I was teaching wait statistics, I was asked whether there’s any expected differences with waits stats when SQL Server is
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
We have a third exciting new class debuting this October in Chicago: Immersion Event on Clustering and Availability Groups. It’s a 2-day class, taught by
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
A few years ago I realized that there was a huge gap in knowledge in the SQL Server community – what do all the various
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
An interesting question came up in class yesterday: how is a default column value stored, and what if some rows exist when a column is added and then
I’ve just released our final set of 2017 classes for registration, including the new two-day class on Azure, the new three-day class on upgrading and
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
And to coincide with our new training class on Azure, we’ve just published a new Pluralsight course on Azure too! Tim’s latest Pluralsight course – SQL Server: Understanding
We have a really cool new class debuting this October in Chicago: Immersion Event on Azure SQL Database and Azure VMs. It’s a 2-day class,
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
You may not know this, but for the last six years I’ve been producing a bi-weekly newsletter for everyone signed up for our mailing list
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
As we head towards our 9th SQLintersection in May, I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and information-packed show yet!
With the publication of our most recent Pluralsight course last month, we now have a whopping 50 online training courses available through Pluralsight, totally more
Last week there was a short discussion on Twitter about why PFS pages (damaged header, not individual PFS bytes) can’t be repaired (prompted by a
As Kimberly mentioned last week, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
In Monday’s newsletter I discussed an email question I’d been sent and promised to blog about it. The question was “how can latch waits for
Although we won’t be presenting any Immersion Events in Europe in 2017, Kimberly and I will both be presenting workshops and sessions at SQLSaturday
We have a really cool new class debuting this May in Chicago: Immersion Event on PowerShell for SQL Server DBAs. It’s a 3-day class, taught
Our first new course of the year, and our 50th online training course with Pluralsight!! Erin’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Introduction to Query
Last week I was sent an email question about the cause of LOGMGR_RESERVE_APPEND waits, and in Monday’s Insider newsletter I wrote a short explanation. It’s
In Monday’s Insider newsletter I discussed an email question I’d been sent about how to identify the transactions that had rolled back because of a crash, and
I’ve just released our second set of classes for 2017 for registration! Our classes in July/August will be in Bellevue, WA: IEPTO1: Immersion Event on Performance
The last post of the year! It’s been a really excellent year all round and time for my traditional post counting down some of the
Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year (see my posts from 2009, 2010, 2011,
As we all wind down for the 2016 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’
Earlier today someone asked on the #sqlhelp Twitter alias if there is a history of database snapshot creation anywhere, apart from scouring the error logs.
By the end of December, we at SQLskills will have presented remotely (and a few in-person) to 94 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the
This is something that came up recently on the Microsoft Certified Master DL, and is something I discuss in our IEPTO1 class because of the
This is a quick post to blog a script that allows spinlock statistics to be captured for a defined period of time (as I need
As we head into our 8th SQLintersection next month, I’m excited to say that it’s our most diverse, complete, and information-packed show yet! We have 3 precon
I’ve just released our first set of classes for 2017 for registration, including a new 3-day class on PowerShell! Our classes in April/May will be
The pages at each level of an index are linked together in a doubly-linked list (using the m_nextPage and m_prevPage fields in their page headers)
Due to scheduling issues, we’re not presenting any classes in Europe in 2017 or early 2018, so your last chance to come to one of
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