PASS Summit agenda now published and I’m speaking!

For those of you who may have been living under a rock for the last few years every year PASS...

Q&A From “5 Ways to Improve Performance through Indexing”

A few weeks back spoke at a Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on indexing that was titled 5 Ways to Improve Performance through...

Reblog: September 6 to September 12

I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...

Windows Azure Service Dashboard – Checkout the health of Azure Services

Windows Azure Service Dashboard is an excellent way to know the health/availability of your Windows Azure Services.

You might always want...

1199 Data Professionals and you

The second incarnation of 2013 “SQL Relay” is bigger and better than ever. We have taken on board all of...

Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Nonclustered Indexes

It’s day four of our six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera, and tonight’s topic is going to...

Microsoft Certified Master program killed

The Certified Master and Architect community was collectively notified Friday, August 30, at 10PM PST that the Certified Master (MCM/MCSM)...

Microsoft Expands Data Centers… Again

Didn’t they just do this in the spring? Word is out that they’re expanding even more data centers. The cynical...

SQL Server – Find all the LOB Data Type Columns in a Database Using T-SQL Script

Today morning when I was working on a huge database containing lots of LOB data, I was required to know...

TPC-E Benchmark Results for Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Two new TPC-E benchmark results have shown up for two-socket database servers using the brand new, 22nm Intel Xeon E5-2697...