Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation

This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.

Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...

Can you speak at my User Group or Conference? No? Sweet As – can you help people register please?

This blog post is not going to be a technical one…. but it’s about technology – well more accurately about bringing...

Creating custom SQL Server Helm charts

In my previous post I went through how to deploy SQL Server to Kubernetes using Helm in which I used...

Finding single use plans in the plan cache

A single use plan is an entry in the SQL Server plan cache that was only used once. When a...

Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump

For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....

#DataInDevon – Getting up to speed with PowerShell or spend a day with one of four other MVPs :-)

Saturday 27th April is Global Azure Bootcamp day
What’s Global Azure Bootcamp?
The website says it best

…. communities will come together once...

Canadian SQL Saturday speaking events

I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at two separate SQL Saturdays in March and April of...

How to get Live Execution Plan using Extended Events

Introduction
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were supposed to troubleshoot a long running expensive query that...

How Your Hypervisor Can Impact Your CPU

Recently I had a client complain of chronic high CPU utilization. The performance of their SQL Server had degraded, and...

Midlands #PASS April Meeting with Matt Gordon (@SQLatSpeed)

Midlands PASS in Columbia, SC, will be hosting Matt Gordon (website | twitter) for our next meeting, which is scheduled for...