Last Monday, I presented a session for Pragmatic Works Training on the T's on the Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse. In the session, titled Recognizing the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Workload, I discussed the role for MPP and PDW in the enterprise and the types of workloads that it can assist with. The abstract for the sessions … Continue reading Webcast Follow-Up: Recognizing the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Workload
Earlier today, I presented a session for Pragmatic Works Training on the T's; which occur every Tuesday and Thursday. In the session, I talked about using SQL Audit (which is based on extended events) and building your own extended event sessions, titled Building Security Audits with Extended Events. In the session, I discussed the need for security … Continue reading Webcast Presentation Materials: Building Security Audits with Extended Events
If you are looking for a presentation that brings together bacon, unicorns, and lightsabers, then you should have seen my presentation this past Thursday for Pragmatic Works Training on the T's. The session was 5 Amazing Reasons DBAs Need to Love Extended Events. In it, I ran through a list of reasons on why extended events … Continue reading Webcast Presentation Materials: 5 Amazing Reasons DBAs Need to Love Extended Events
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)
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