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...

Review of Minion Reindex

Back in October 2014 Midnight SQL released v1.0 of Minion Reindex, a free, open source index maintenance solution. I’m all...

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...

Speaking at SQL Saturday #389 – Huntington Beach

I’ll be traveling to CA next month for SQL Saturday #389 – Huntington Beach as well as a Red Gate DLM...

Speaking at SQLSaturday 376 Budapest

On April 18 2015 I will be speaking at SQLSaturday #376 in Budapest!

I will be speaking about one of my...

Announcing the SQL New Blogger Challenge!

TL;DR – In April, I’m challenging myself to write (and publish!) here regularly, and I’m extending an open challenge to other new...

Announcing: SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015 is coming up on August 2 at LSU, register today!

Email or instant message your friends, post...

Career Ratings

I wrote the other day about measuring your career, and I gave some general advice, but I wanted to give...

Lessons Learned from a Poor-performing VIEW

It is a “common knowledge” among SQL practitioners that VIEWs don’t perform well. Recently during an application’s development I put...

Monitoring for Timeouts

The question came up at SQL Rally, “Can you use Extended Events to monitor for query timeouts?”
My immediate response was...