Comments on: You Need Three Heads To Read This Post Properly https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Benchmark SQL Server Wait Statistics - SQL Server - SQL Server - Toad World https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/#comment-9847 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:01:22 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=10776#comment-9847 […] Finally, you need to be careful about the advice on the internet. It can be like taking candy from strangers. There still quite a bit of misleading advice that can cause more harm than good. An easy example is CXPACKET waits. There are articles that recommend setting Max Degree of Parallelism to 1 for the instance. This would actually be the last thing I would want to do by just seeing CXPACKET as a top wait type.  I would want to find the queries causing  CXPACKET waits see if they are effecting the business  and tune them if needed. If that isn’t possible than I would consider this recommendation. […]

]]> By: Benchmark SQL Server Wait Statistics | JohnSterrett.com https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/#comment-9846 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:00:32 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=10776#comment-9846 […] Finally, you need to be careful about the advice on the internet. It can be like taking candy from strangers. There still quite a bit of misleading advice that can cause more harm than good. An easy example is CXPACKET waits. There are articles that recommend setting Max Degree of Parallelism to 1 for the instance. This would actually be the last thing I would want to do by just seeing CXPACKET as a top wait type.  I would want to find the queries causing  CXPACKET waits see if they are effecting the business  and tune them if needed. If that isn’t possible than I would consider this recommendation. […]

]]> By: (SFTW) SQL Server Links 06/09/13 • John Sansom https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/#comment-9479 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:06:30 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=10776#comment-9479 […] You Need Three Heads To Read This Post Properly – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter) […]

]]> By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/#comment-9455 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:46:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=10776#comment-9455 In reply to John.

Thanks John!

]]> By: John https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/#comment-9454 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:29:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=10776#comment-9454 Hi Tom,

Congrats on the new title. I am very happy for you. I think Confio is very lucky to have you as their first full-time Technical Evangelist.

Regards,
John

]]> By: You Need Three Heads To Read This Post Properly - SQL Server - SQL Server - Toad World https://thomaslarock.com/2013/08/need-three-heads-read-post-properly/#comment-9453 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:31:39 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=10776#comment-9453 […] You Need Three Heads To Read This Post Properly is a post from: SQLRockstar – Thomas LaRock […]

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