Well, technically I think we would just call it Virginia, but I am speaking this weekend at SQL Saturday #61. My talk is ‘Performance Tuning Made Easy’ and you can read a little bit more about it here.
I am always trying to find ways to help people who are new to MSSQL to understand the [...]
Why You Can’t Trust sysdepends
One thing I learned early on in my former life as a production DBA was the old motto “trust but verify”. Such is the case when it comes to relying on system information in order for your tools to work properly. An example that comes to mind immediately is the use of the sysdepends system [...]
Upcoming Changes to 24 Hours of PASS
Last week I told you that I would let you in on what changes we have in mind for the 24 Hours of PASS event. Well, today is your lucky day!
At the PASS 2010 Summit I was asked by our President, Rushabh Mehta, to focus on the 24 HoP event for the first part of [...]
Un-SQL Friday: Branding
Today is the first Un-SQL Friday, the brainchild of @MidnightDBA. The original post can be found here http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2010/11/un-sql-friday-001-branding/
While in Seattle for the PASS Summit I decided to get my freak on FreeCon with Brent Ozar (blog | @BrentO). Part of the seminar had me take part in an exercise about branding. Brent talked about our [...]