If you are looking to become more familiar with extended events, take a gander at this month’s DBA Virtual Chapter meeting. I’ll be presenting at both of the meetings for the month. The first meeting will cover the basics and some information on where Extended Events is going. The second will cover some deeper content … Continue reading Speaking at PASS DBA Virtual Chapter
Earlier today, Thomas LaRock (Blog | @SQLRockstar) tagged me for his Meme Monday post. The question for today is: how many things can go wrong with a database server that are NOT related to a disk drive? Here are my 9 items… Unchecked parallelism Unmanaged security Code that works, not performs Disbelief in clustered indexes … Continue reading Meme Monday – "I got 99 problems but a disk ain't one"
I’ve been counting down the days until I get the score from my second attempt at the SQL Server MCM written exam. When I last took it, I knew there were some areas that I didn’t know the answers. But for the vast majority of the exam I felt good. In fact, I felt that … Continue reading MCM: To pass, or not to pass
It’s that time of the month again… again. Time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s event is being hosted by Matt Velic (Blog | @mvelic). The topic that he chose for this month is the APPLY operator. This is a great topic. I like it because, often, when I am presenting I ask the question, “who … Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #17 – APPLY Knowledge
Use extended events; they work - and make you appear magical. -- "Write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less" via Thomas Larock (Blog | @SQLRockStar)
We’ve seen a few summaries come through by now, so I’m going to throw mine into the mix. To recap those that I’ve already read, there are: Grant Fritchey (Blog | @GFritchey) – Summary Jes Schultz Borland (Blog|@grrl_geek) – Summary Kelly Martinez (Blog | @greeleygeek) – Summary Bringing Friends One thing different about this SQL … Continue reading #SQLSat67… it's mystery is only exceeded by it's power.
This past Wednesday I took a drive down to the Iowa SQL Server Users Group meeting. It was a bit of a drive but I got a chance to hang out with a fellow Digineerian on the way there and talk about solutions. I really enjoyed the meeting. There were probably 40 people at the … Continue reading Iowa PASS Presentation Materials
Last week I spoke at the PASSMN meeting here in Minnesota and then via a webcast to the Edmonton PASS chapter. For both nights the presentations seemed to go fairly well – especially given the e-mail requests for the presentation materials after the events. PASSMN Meeting Session: Error Logs and Deadlocks, Oh My Tired of … Continue reading Presentations Materials From Last Week
Will you be in Edmonton today? How about near a computer connected to the inter-tubes? If so, you might be interested in joining the EDMPASS January user group meeting. Colin Stasiuk (Blog | @BenchmarkIT) invited me to join the meeting today. The details for the meeting are Start Time: Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011 6:00 PM … Continue reading Presenting on #SSIS to EDMPASS Today
Now it’s week three of voting for the upcoming SQLRally. This week, we are voting for the Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment sessions for the conference. Part “two” when we are on week three you may wonder? Well that’s because I have a session listed in this track as I did in last week’s track … Continue reading Time To Get Your #SQLRally Vote On! – Part 2
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