Transaction Log Internals - My session ingredients

Still 18 days to go for my session on Transaction Log Internals for Chennai SQL Server User Group (17-Nov).
While seeing...

Amazon Kindle Fire Released

Amazon has released the latest version of it Kindle – the Kindle Fire HD.
It seems amazon are moving away from a...

Countdown to PASS Summit 2012 – 8 to Go – What Is PASS Anyway?

Eight days to go. So after going to my first conference, I was surprised that I did not know more...

Geographic Failover/Redundancy (and DR)

Today we await the arrival of a 100 year storm that threatens to surge New York harbor and the Long...

Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #4

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out...

Microsoft Surface RT Review

Last Friday, pretty much on impulse, I decided to go to the Microsoft Store in the Park Meadows Mall in...

Monitor Blocking with Extented Events in SQL 2012

1. Set the "blocked process threshold (s)"
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1 ;
GO
RECONFIGURE ;
GO
sp_configure 'blocked process threshold', 10 ;
GO
RECONFIGURE ;
GO

here we...

Virtualizing Your Business Critical SQL Servers Anthology

This week I completed a six-part blog series (more like five plus one) on the path to virtualizing your business-critical...

Advanced TSQL training

Over the past few years, Ive had it on my to do list to write and deliver and full-scale SQLServer...

Countdown to PASS Summit 2012 – 9 to Go – My First Summit

We are less than ten days to the start of PASS Summit 2012. I thought it would be fun to...