Conferences in the second half of 2015: From Asia to America to Europe // Konferenzen im 2. Halbjahr 2015: Von Asien über Amerika bis Europa

Exposure to Internals

For me, some of the most fun stuff with SQL Server is diving deep into the internals. Diving into the...

Exposure to Internals

The premise of the article today is to get a little exposure to some of the internals that may cause a bit of curiosity for you. I will share...

Hyper-V The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

Note this fix only works on Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 or later. A different method is required on Windows Server...

No longer a SQL Server MVP - Read Carefully.

As of October
1, 2015, I am no longer a Microsoft SQL Server MVP.  Countless of my colleagues met the same...

Pass 2015 – First Impressions

It’s Pass 2015 this week and I’m attending (seriously I’m unbelievably chuffed)! As they’ll be a shedload of blogs about...

Pass 2015 – First Impressions

It’s Pass 2015 this week and I’m attending (seriously I’m unbelievably chuffed)! As they’ll be a shedload of blogs about...

SQL New Blogger Challenge: Looking back… and a new challenge!

A little over six months ago, I suggested the SQL New Blogger Challenge. I thought that maybe a few people...

Using Extended Events to Detect Connection Pooling

What is connection pooling? Lets start with a definition from MSDN.
Connecting to a data source can be time consuming. To...

Extended Events Intro

Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people...