June is now behind me, as are both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe. I am very, very grateful to Microsoft for giving me the opportunity to present at both events this year. To say that Orlando and Amsterdam are different cities is a bit of an understatement. I could fill another few blog posts … Read more
No matter what our profession, we all have our favorite set of tools to help us get the job done. Database Administrators will have a set of scripts that we use in order to gain insight into the server instances under our care. I often see beginner DBAs look to the counters provided by Perfmon (AKA, the Resource and … Read more
I found a diagram recently that helped to explain the different types of JOIN syntax. Being the type person that enjoys the visualization of abstract concepts such as set theory this diagram spoke to me. Despite the diagram being well done something seemed slightly wrong about it. I thought about it for a while and then it … Read more
We’ve all had those moments. It’s late in the day. You are about to head home a few minutes early so you can bring your daughter to soccer practice on time. Your phone rings. The voice on the other end of the line mutters something about the server “being slow”, and needs you to fix … Read more
Have you heard about or seen the Born to Learn blog from MS Learning? Did you know that Microsoft certifications are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year? That’s one year older than Jonathan Kehayias (blog | @SQLPoolboy)! Tomorrow at 9AM ET I am taking part in a tweetchat with MS Learning where we want to help promote the new … Read more
Last week I posted a puzzle of sorts. I showed you a handful of graphs from PAL and asked if anyone could determine what had happened. Out of all the comments that were left only a handful of people seemed to be on the right track, or showed a methodology in their thinking that should … Read more
