As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts of interest that you may want to check out are: Management Data Warehouse Whitepaper (7/22/2009) – White paper from a couple years back that discusses the management data warehouse. Enjoy.
Last night I received an e-mail letting me know that I’ll be presenting at SQL Saturday #84 in Kalamazoo, MI. Besides myself, this is shaping up to be quite an event. The schedule of sessions and list of speakers has been published. I’ll be presenting on the following two topics: The Creepy DBA, How to … Continue reading I've Got A “SQLSat” In Kalamazoo
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Oddly enough, in four years of blogging I’ve not blogged in this week before – guess I’ll need to do something about that. Maybe they’ll be better luck next week…
This spring I presented a few sessions at the spring SSWUG virtual conference – DBTechCon. Now that the event is over, I’ve received some feedback from the attendees and I thought I’d share it here. Overall, the responses back were great. The approach for the Profiler versus Extended Events session didn’t seem to come across … Continue reading SSWUG Spring Conference Speaker Ratings
No posts in a couple weeks, except the Re-Blogs. Guess the running around and getting married I did last week had an effect on the blog. Since it took up a lot of the last couple of weeks I thought I might share some of the highlights. Most importantly, I married Sarah Strate (Blog | … Continue reading Got Married, Got Behind
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts of interest that you may want to check out are: Index Size and Usage (7/10/2008) – Query to determine size and usage of an index. This one I’ve used quite a few times over the … Continue reading Re-blog – July 8-July 14
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts of interest that you may want to check out are: AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC SQL Server Database Configuration (7/2/2008) – A couple useful resources about auto update statistics. Enjoy.
It’s a new month, and time to check out your SQL Servers to make sure everything is configured and working properly. Originally, I had planned to put this out on the first Monday of every month. The trouble is, yesterday was a US holiday and I was likely jet skiing. Did I just give away … Continue reading July Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Thanks Microsoft for awarding me the MVP for SQL Server for the third year in a row. It’s a great honor to receive the MVP award and I appreciate the recognition from Microsoft. I’d also like to thank those that have read my blogs, attended my sessions, and basically allowed me to banter about a … Continue reading 2011 SQL Server MVP Award
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts of interest that you may want to check out are: Why’d That Job Fail? (6/26/2010) – SQL Agent Job advanced options to get job failure information. A best practice of mine. Database Mail Failed Items … Continue reading Re-blog – June 24-June 30
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