I’m an MVP: now what?

Today when I checked my mailbox I found an amazing surprise: I joined the ranks of the Most Valuable Professionals...

Powershell – Copy the Latest Backup

I got an email recently where someone asked me how they can refresh a dev environment with Powershell. I guess...

Tracing call stacks in SQL Server – Installing the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) on Windows 8.1 and generating debug symbols for SQL Server binaries

Where to get the debugger tools
To generate the needed symbols you will need the “Standalone Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg)” download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852365

How to...

Tracing call stacks in SQL Server – Installing the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) on Windows 8.1 and generating debug symbols for SQL Server binaries

Where to get the debugger tools To generate the needed symbols you will need the “Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10” download here: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk and click “Download the standalone SDK” ...

[SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 103 – T-Logs and VLFs

Finally the arrival of Part 3 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand...

2014 – A year in review.

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And so another year passes, and as I’ve never wrote a “year in review” post before now seems like a...

2014 – One more Year with you

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed...

2014 – One more Year with you

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...

5th Blogging Year

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years since my first ever post, in which I simply spelled Business Intelligence. Thanks...

Finding a common AD group for a set of users.

I work for a large organization that over the last few years has been doing a LOT of reorgs. And...