We’ve received wonderful support from the community. Brad McGehee has a list with great people on it who have volunteered to be technical editors. A bunch of people have inquired about writing for the reincarnation of SQL Server Standard (SSS). I’ve accepted, to date, eight different abstracts. I’ve started learning…

I haven’t done well with this. I missed a post. I missed a bunch of workouts. I put on weight. Basically #ActiveAugust for me was one giant bag of FAIL. Anyway, I finished up the week with a couple of days teaching karate. I did workouts before class, including a…

I think the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS) is an extremely important organization for SQL Server DBA’s. Even if you’re not a member, you’ve never attended the Summit, gone to a local chapter meeting, read the magazine (while it was in print), took part in…

Well, three chapters. The latest book I worked on is up at Apress. I only have three chapters in this one, backup, restore & performance monitoring & tuning. It’s written as an introductory book, targeted to help get people started as a DBA. I haven’t read the chapters from…

I saw this question and my immediate thought was “Well, duh, the execution plan is recreated by a recompile.” But, someone a bit smarter than myself suggested that, in fact, no plan was stored in cache, forcing a new plan to be created each time the query was run.

So,…

I have two new books that I can heartily recommend. This isn’t a review of either book since I’ve only just started reading them. However, I’ve used each to solve a couple of small problems within a day of having them on the shelf. To me, that proves their worth.

Well, actually, these are the guidelines for submitting anything to SQLPASS, but it includes the guidelines for SQL Server Standard. If you’re considering submitting an abstract (and please, don’t consider it, do it) read through there for the basic information.

I’ve accepted six different abstracts so far on a…

For the one or two you that are not reading Buck Woody’s blog (and why aren’t you), you may not have seen that he’s posted a recommended reading list of the blogs that he reads on a regular basis. This list must be reviewed by you, now. Go on, I’ll…

My turn to answer Chris Shaw’s questions “Do I feel I have a reliable SAN solution?” and “Describe Database Mirroring for the layman?” Thanks Tim. I’ve a feeling you’re going to be disappointed.

SAN:
Hell, how should I know? Want to talk about a black box? Our SAN, as…

I thought I had captured statement start times within the DMV sys.dm_exec_sessions. I was absolutely wrong. However, this has sparked a bit of discussion, as you can see in the link to my correction. John Vanda (I couldn’t find a blog by him, but I think this is his…

I was introduced to the Thrive program when my user group held a Thrive event back in March. Since then I’ve referenced some of their material several times. It’s a decent little program from Microsoft to try to help out IT pros in this tough economy.

Hopefully this won’t create…

Hrmmm… 198. Up four pounds. That just doesn’t seem possible. I did a tabata on Monday. I did have a light workout on Thursday, but I went walking several days this week and I haven’t been overeating (except last night at sushi…hmmmm sushi). It may just be last night &…

The PASS Application Development SIG is hosting a web cast next week on Tuesday where I’ll be presenting Understanding Execution Plans. Please come by and ask questions. Preferably ones related to execution plans.

Thursday this week I get to hang out, virtually, with some of the heavy hitters of the industry, Brent Ozar, Ross Mistry and Kevin Kline. We’ll be talking about SQL Server books. Writing them, reading them, reviewing them, finding the right one at the store… It’ll be fun. All the…

PASS is relaunching the SQL Server Standard with a wholly new approach and format. I’ll put more out about it as it becomes available. I just wanted to get the word out now, as far and as wide as I can. Basically submissions are open for articles. We’re only interested…

I’m fairly certain Jack Bauer isn’t involved with this new initiative from PASS. Just as I’m also certain I won’t be the only person to invoke 24 while referring to 24 Hours of PASS. But even without Jack Bauer, I’m on the edge of my seat. 24 different sessions…

I like to blog about technical topics and community, not personal stuff. However, this is a community post. A number of active SQL Server DBA’s & Developers on Twitter have decided to make August a self-help, support-group month for eating well and being active, Active August. I’m taking part. I’ll…