Ahhh – Motor City. What a fun place to start my 2013 SQL Saturday rounds! Detroit, here I come! You all know I’m a closet gearhead, so this should be fun!

I am speaking on one of my favorite topics – Database Health and Performance.

Session Abstract: Sure, your SQL Server is up and running. Is it healthy? Is it performing the best that it can? Where are your performance bottlenecks? In an emergency, can you objectively demonstrate where a performance problem lies? This dynamic dialog session will present a solid process for checking your environment’s overall health and performance levels as well as solutions for common problems. Some of the items focused on include dynamic management views (DMVs), Windows Perfmon, and disk performance tools such as IOMeter and SQLIO.

I’ll see you there! Bring a laptop so you can remote into your work environments and let’s explore your system health and performance levels together.