[Note: I took my original SQLU blog post for Powershell and updated it for use this week. So, if you’ve heard me say all these things before, now you know why.] Welcome back to SQL University, the only university conducted entirely through blog posts, has no exams, and is organized by a chicken. This week … Read more
Back when I was planning my travel for this week I thought it was brilliant for me to try to combine as many things into one trip, as opposed to having to do three separate trips. What three things? I’m glad you asked. This week (actually just the next four days) will see me take … Read more
Everything I Needed To Know About Waits and Queues I Learned From the TSA
“You know that I can ask you any question I want today, right?” The man asking the question was one of my professors at Washington State University. I had asked him to serve on the committee that would conduct the oral exam at the end of my second year. If I passed I earned my … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
