HDInsight: First Pass

I installed HDInsight with no errors. The install is so brain-dead, I couldn’t see how there could be errors. But,...

Treat Yourself to Knowledge

There’s a one day sale going on at Apress today, 11/26/12. All their eBooks are $15. This means you can...

Final 2012 Learning Opportunity

There’s still a little time left in the year. I know some businesses have allocated training budgets and if they...

Living with the Surface, Maybe

No major updates at the moment. I still haven’t played with remoting through PowerShell. I’m just living with it.
Had an...

HDInsight and Buggy Whips

I sat the through the big announcements at the 2011 PASS Summit about the partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop. I...

Remote Desktop and Surface

The Windows RT operating system is not the same as Windows. After all the talk about the upcoming OS and...

SQL Server Execution Plans, Second Edition by Grant Fritchey

Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution plans. This book leads you right from the basics of capturing plans, through how to interrupt them in their various forms, graphical or XML, and then how to use the information you find there to diagnose the most common causes of poor query performance, and so optimize your SQL queries, and improve your indexing strategy.

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Surface Problems With Azure

I’ve been posting about the Surface over the last couple of weeks and I’ve tried really hard to be positive...

Purpose of the Surface RT

I’m a little over two weeks with the Surface at this point. I’ve been travelling all of that time, so...

PASS Summit Day 3: Dr. David Dewitt

Two quick points, I’m putting this blog together using the Surface.. ooh… and this isn’t a keynote, but a spotlight...