Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd

As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical...

Journey to Being a Consultant – Webinar Today

Today at 11am Central time I will be presenting a new session entitled “Journey to Being a Consultant” for the...

New SQL Server Blog Author Challenge

My good friend Ed Leighton-Dick has created a great new challenge, adapted from a challenge issued by Seth Godin back...

Selected as a PernixPro

Today I’d like to announce that I have been selected as a PernixPro for 2015! It’s a program similar to...

Keep VM snapshot growth from wrecking your day

VM snapshots are one of the best virtualization features ever. But…have you ever had a VMware vSphere or Hyper-V snapshot...

SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins – SQL Saturday Madison Precon

I am pleased to announce a brand new pre-conference training session, entitled “SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins“, to be...

Presenting with Tegile at Lincoln SQL Server Users Group Thursday

This Thursday I will be joining an open discussion with Tegile Systems and the Lincoln SQL Server Users Group on...

Presenting for Omaha SQL Server Users Group Wednesday

I am pleased to be presenting a highly interactive session tomorrow evening that is a full end-to-end setup and management...

Book Review: Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware

It’s not often that you’ll see me write a lengthy book review. Most book reviews are fluff telling you to...

SQL Cruise Caribbean 2015 Wrap Up

I just returned home from this year’s SQL Cruise in the Caribbean. WOW!

This trip was our first SQL Cruise, but it...