Virtual Presentation Tomorrow

I’ll be presenting a practice run at one of my PASS Summit presentations, Identifying Common Performance Problems using Execution Plans,...

Vote For The SQLRally Pre-Con Seminars

Do you know a real-life Pointy Haired Boss? Maybe you don’t work for him, but I bet you’ve met one.
In...

When is that Restore Going to Finish?

I spent a good portion of last weekend restoring databases from backup due to a large release. Nothing went wrong,...

2-Weeks to PASS Summit 2010 Countdown

It’s getting down to brass tacks.  There is now only 2 more weeks until the PASS Summit.  There’ve been a...

Are you Living under a SQLRock ?

I don’t mean a LaRock aka SQLRockstar, but an actual rock.

I was at dinner last week after our all...

Bucket List

I have no intentions of kicking the bucket – ever.  I have no intentions of getting old either.  We’ll see how...

Houston Tech Fest 2010

A few weekends ago, I participated in my first Tech Fest, speaking at the Houston Tech Fest 2010 event held...

Motivational Monday (On a Tuesday)

Hey Gang,

Sorry for the absence. I have been offline for a bit dealing with some family stuff. All if good...

New Book on Query Optimizer

Benjamin Nevarez (blog) has been working really hard on a book on the Query Optimizer. It just got finished in...

PASS SQLRally Pre-con Voting Is Open

I'm happy to announce that voting for the 2011 PASS SQLRally Pre-con sessions is now open! There are four tracks:...