Want to take a few minutes out of your day on to learn a bit more about indexes? On Thursday, I’ll be presenting at Quest’s Pain of the Week webcast. The session will be Understanding Your Indexes: Operational Stats. There's a lot that goes on under the covers of SQL Server with your indexes. But … Continue reading Pain of the Week: Understanding Your Indexes
Let's Get Registered! Registered!
The PASS Summit is only a few short months away. But before that happens there is an important deadline fast approaching… the end of the pre-June 30th discount. For the last few months, you could save $600 off the cost of the regular entry fee. But on Thursday it all ends. I figured we’ve seen … Continue reading Let's Get Registered! Registered!
Re-blog – June 17-June 23
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 Those Foreign Keys (6/18/2010) – Query to help make certain that foreign keys in your databases are indexed. CLR_AUTO_EVENT Wait Stat (6/19/2008) – Details … Continue reading Re-blog – June 17-June 23
Creating A User Group Daily Paper
A few months back, I was asked if there was a way that the information shared by the Twitter users of our user group could be shared with the non-Twitter users. Basically a way to bring them the a sample of what was on Twitter to help people stay abreast of the things going on … Continue reading Creating A User Group Daily Paper
PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Tomorrow
Tomorrow is time for part two of my presentations this month on Extended Events for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter. If you missed the first part of this series, you can watch it before hand here. Below are the details on the event and the session description… Extended Events, Work Smarter Not Harder – Part … Continue reading PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Tomorrow
Re-blog – June 10-June 16
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…
Speaking At The PASS Summit
It appears I was fortunate enough to be selected to speak at the 2011 PASS Summit. This is shaping up to be a rock solid summit this year. The day before the summit is my birthday, I get to speak at the summit, and then afterwards on to my honeymoon with Sarah (Blog | @DanceM0m). … Continue reading Speaking At The PASS Summit
Re-blog – June 3-June 9
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: Really Search Cache for Execution Plans (6/4/2009) – Query to assist in finding plans to stored procedures. Enjoy.
Get Certified with Insurance
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Reporting Services and Internet Explorer 9
Turns out there is a snag when it comes to using Internet Explorer 9 with SharePoint and SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. If you need to export a report, the export options don’t exists. There’s an open Connect item on this, please take a moment to up-vote this item.
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