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:

• Management Data Warehouse Whitepaper (7/22/2009) – White paper from a couple years back that discusses the management data warehouse.

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Last night I received an e-mail letting me know that I’ll be presenting at SQL Saturday #84 in Kalamazoo, MI.  Besides myself, this is shaping up to be quite an event.  The schedule of sessions and list of speakers has been published.

I’ll be presenting on the following… Read more

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…

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This spring I presented a few sessions at the spring SSWUG virtual conference – DBTechCon.  Now that the event is over, I’ve received some feedback from the attendees and I thought I’d share it here. 

Overall, the responses back were great.  The approach for the Profiler versus Extended Events… Read more

Seriously, what’s going on in Minnesota?  Our government is shut down and… we are hosting a SQL Saturday on a Friday (again).  We are shaking up our event a little bit over last year though… instead of a casino, we’re moving the event to a local church.

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No posts in a couple weeks, except the Re-Blogs.  Guess the running around and getting married I did last week had an effect on the blog.  Since it took up a lot of the last couple of weeks I thought I might share some of the highlights.

1. Most importantly, I…

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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 Size and Usage (7/10/2008) – Query to determine size and usage of an index.  This one I’ve used…

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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:

• AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC SQL Server Database Configuration (7/2/2008) – A couple useful resources about auto update statistics.

Enjoy.

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1. Re-blog…

It’s a new month, and time to check out your SQL Servers to make sure everything is configured and working properly.  Originally, I had planned to put this out on the first Monday of every month.  The trouble is, yesterday was a US holiday and I was likely jet skiing.… Read more

Thanks Microsoft for awarding me the MVP for SQL Server for the third year in a row.  It’s a great honor to receive the MVP award and I appreciate the recognition from Microsoft. 

I’d also like to thank those that have read my blogs, attended my sessions, and basically allowed… Read more

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:

• Why’d That Job Fail? (6/26/2010) – SQL Agent Job advanced options to get job failure information.  A best practice…

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