High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training in Austin

I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #461 in Austin on January 29th, 2016 titled “Creating a High Availability and Disaster Recovery...

Changing Scales and Creating Disappointment

I got an email recently that notified me that session feedback from the Summit was available for my talk. I’d...

Storage options on Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services...

It’s Not Too Late

You know you want to go on the SQL Cruise. You can. You just have to convince the boss that...

Announcing SQL Server Management Studio - November 2015 Release

For Summary On Improvements In the Latest Release
Please go through the below link.

Summary On Improvements In SSMS Nov 2015

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Why would you want to name a transaction?

Something that i keep seeing in documentation, in forum code and in real systems is transactions that have names
BEGIN TRANSACTION...

Querying the Plan Cache

I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...

The Discomfort Zone

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a book entitled The Phoenix Project. This book has been in my Kindle library...

Summon Blue Screens of Death (for testing purposes only, of course)

Today I had a need to manually trigger and sustain a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) inside a Windows Server...

Monday Morning SQL Break – November 30, 2015

It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on...