SQL Server 2005 Tools

A good talk on the tools from the guy that's responsible for SSMS,
Configuration Manager, Maintenance plans, Surface Area Configuration
Wizard, and...

SQL Server Always On

Everyone wants 5 9's of uptime, 24x7 support, and instant fixes for
issues with their database server. Never mind that I'd...

Clustered Index Seek or Key Lookup

When I teach performance tuning I always remind students to be cautious about service packs because things you "know" may...

First Session

I dropped into Brian Knight's "Clustering in 60 Minutes" to say hi. If
you've never seen this, it's pretty cool and...

Tech Ed - Keynote

These will get pretty long as I'm kind of wordy, but these are impressions as things are occurring.

Registration is a...

Working Afternoon

I ended up driving around Orlando this afternoon to get books. We'd
printed the next version of our Two Minute SQL...

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for June 6, 2007

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, June 7th, at
6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our gracious...

Speaking at PASS 2007

I'll be doing a spotlight session called 'Transactional Replication for Beginners' this year. I've been speaking at the Summit since...

Book Reviews

I've got a new article running on SSC today with a few more book reviews: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/2998.asp.

The Developer Differences

Here we are starting to see information on Katmai and I'm just getting around to an article comparing SQL 2005...