Hunting down those expensive SPs

A query to find out which Stored Procedures are taking the longest to run ( in this example – the Top 10).
I’m sure there are...

I will be at PASS will you ?

Pretty exciting stuff gang! I have an approved session and an alternate for the PASS Summit in November. The SQL...

In Depth – Parallel Data Warehousing – PDW

What are we talking about?
Recently Microsoft released a new version of SQL Server 2008 R2 called Parallel Data Warehouse Edition....

Is my SQL Server Pre-Release?

I get to work with a lot of different clients and client environments and like many companies they are often...

It’s the Process

Unless you’ve spent the last two days hiding under a rock, you’ve heard the uproar around this week’s development in...

Kent SQL Server User Group

Well , that was an experience. 
It was my first time arranging anything like that and it seemed to me that...

Making Presentations With My iPad

I recently gave a couple of talks at devLINK 2010 at the David Lipscomb University campus in Nashville.

One of the...

More Videos from SQL Saturday South Florida

With everyone geared up for SQL Cruise I’m surprised we can air this video but since we kicked it off...

Motivational Monday – 8/9/10

This week it's all about speed. Many thing in life are drive n by how fast we can get them...

Neat script to monitor activity

Scouring the web this week, I stumbled across SQL Server MVP Adam Mechanics and his script :-
Who is Active?
Its basically a...