For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

When I first started working with Azure SQL Databases, I wasn’t sure what it would take to backup a database.  In fact, I wasn’t even sure if this concept was appropriate when it came to databases hosted in “the cloud”.  What I found was that the concept of backing up… Read more

Each release of SQL Server is chalk full of new features and an assorted amount of bells and whistles.  Some of these, like Availability Groups and ColumnStore, are great additions and their introduction includes much fanfare.  Among all of those new features, is the occasional little bell which offers us… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

After lunch, I led the session “What Are You Waiting For?” at SQL Saturday Chicago #211.  It was another well-received session and the attendees definitely learned a lot about the value in wait stat analysis.  The only downside, was my snap decision to add an extended event demo… Read more

Just got done with my morning session, titled ”Discovering the Plan Cache“, for SQL Saturday Chicago #211 and wanted to get out my session deck and scripts for people.  The session got pretty high marks from the attendees and people seemed to get a lot of good information… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

A tweet from Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt) this morning…

I’m surrounded by BI people!!!!#passbac

— Ted Krueger (@onpnt) April 11, 2013

inspired a little creativity…

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Like many of us, I have a collection of favorite movies. These include Ghostbusters, Stripes, Serenity, and dozens more. I don’t always want to watch specific movies, but when the mood hits, it’s great to be able to grab one or another and relax for the the evening. Unfortunately, DVDs… Read more

In a previous post, I discussed running SQLIO against multiple files.  The purpose in using multiple files is being able to test not just a single volume’s capability to deliver data from storage, but to test the storage as a whole.  Doing so is important since, what ever application,… Read more

This month, Bob Pusateri (Blog | @SQLBob) is running T-SQL Tuesday on presenting.  T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogging event where a number of us in the SQL Server community gets together to blog on a central topic. The topic that was chosen for this month is… Read more

This past weekend, I took a quick trek into the land of beer and cheese for the second annual Madison SQL Saturday event.  The event was a great success, but  can you expect less when one of the organizers is wielding a light saber.  For a change this time, instead… Read more

The Chicago SQL Saturday is coming up this weekend on Saturday, April 13th.  If you are waiting until the last minute to register to join in on the training, better stop waiting because the last open slots may be filling up.  I’ll be there (with the unicorn somewhere near by)… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

Crack a beer and melt the cheese, the Madison SQL Saturday is this weekend.  Don’t wait any longer because you don’t want to end up on the waiting list.  Getting off the waiting list can be tough – and involves a light saber duel with Jes Borland (Blog |… Read more

After working on this monthly checklist for over a year, I’ve recently discovered that there isn’t anything that we should be doing with our SQL Server databases.  Apparently, the platform is completely and absolutely self-maintaining and provides built-in disaster recovery without any effort on your part.  Along with all of… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

We’re less than three weeks away from the Chicago SQL Saturday.  This will be my fourth time heading to Chicago for their SQL Saturday and I’m looking forward to that and a stop at Portillo’s (which I probably shouldn’t mention since Sarah isn’t able to come along).  The… Read more