Database Administration via CrowdSourcing

According to Wikipedia:
 Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group...

Last Cumulative Update – 16 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now Available !

The 16th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft...

My conference-sessions in 2015: from Extended Events over In-Memory to Security

Presenting To The Orlando .Net Users Group on June 11, 2015

I’ll be returning to ONETUG just less than a year from my last presentation, delivering technical content and evangelizing for...

SQL F.A.D. – Average Transactions Per Day - WaterOx Consulting

Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes Fast & Dirty is OK. Other times, not so much. Sometimes...
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SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Is Now Available !

Finally after a long waiting period, Microsoft release SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Same is now available for...

Azure Columnstore, part 3 – Modern Segment Elimination and Set Statistics IO

Welcome to the 3rd blog post in the Azure Columnstore series, this one is dedicated to one very important improvement...

CDO Summit Toronto June 4th

I am presenting the lunch keynote at the Toronto Chief Data Officer Summit on June 4th.  My session is on...

004 – Cracked Foundation - WaterOx Consulting

Reading Time: 4 minutesDo You Have a Cracked Foundation? in WOxPod!, episode # 004 –...
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An Extended Event script

I have been enjoying XE alot recently ( from following SQLSKILLS) so I decided to write something that I used recently...