Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification

 
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...

What You Practice

I saw a very interesting blog at 37 Signals on the quote “the things you do more often are the...

All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010

I’ve got to figure out a good way to present a regular summary of what we do every week. Until...

Clustered index vs Non clustered index

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Clustered and Non clustered indexes are stored in a B – tree structure .
Clustered...

December Question: What does it mean to be a Proactive DBA?

One of the things I promote in all my presentations is the importance of being a proactive DBA. Unfortunately, the...

Presenting to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter

I will be giving a presentation and demo to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter on Wednesday, December 8 2010...

Processing a Measure Groups Index Using SSMS

As I had mentioned in a previous blog (Creating and processing an Analysis Services partition), instead of processing an entire...

Salary Averages

I saw this posted on Twitter, yet another reason to have a variety of people you follow. Some very interesting...

SQL Craft Fair

Have you ever been “dragged” to a long weekend afternoon at a craft fair? Did it look something like this?

This...

SQL Spackle

I previously mentioned how SQL Server Central was listing ideas for articles, primarily for short, quick, pointed articles that they...