Typically, I am a big advocate of performance monitor but one place I commonly see performance monitor being misused is with benchmarking...  Read more...

Not exactly groundbreaking information, but were you aware that you can run SQLIO with multiple files?  Until a couple months...  Read more...

Here is another example CPU throttling from someone who had a server running with the default “Balanced” Power Plan in...  Read more...

I do more than just SQL Server. I enjoy programming. In my former life I have worked with C/C++ and Assembler. I also spent quite a bit of time in Visual Basic. I loved it for prototyping and what we now call RAD development efforts.  Read more...