sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up?

G’day,
I was checking out some of our configuration options today using sys.configurations and I started to wonder how many people...

Virtual/Adhoc Teams

I’m a fan of virtual teams, times when you pull together people from across many teams to form a team...

Best PASS Summit Ever (so far)

I have to admit that the 2011 PASS Summit was such an amazing experience and there was so much to...

Jeremy Huppatz presents Row Versioned Data Warehouse

Subject: Row Versioned Data WarehousesLevel: 200-300 (Intermediate)

Start Time: Thursday, December 15th, 2011 8:00 PM US Central Time
Presenter: Jeremy Huppatz...

Is my blog infringing on anything?

There was a recent uproar about a session delivered recently. A company thinks that the session infringed on their intellectual...

We Are Community

Today I was planning on writing a summary post of PASS Summit experience but something happened last night that caused...

RSS Tuning Whitepaper notes and clarifications

This morning this caught my eye on SQLServerCentral.com: Maximizing SQL Server Throughput with RSS Tuning(it came with a catchy SQLCAT...

October 2011 SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries

Since Microsoft released the official name for “SQL Server Code Named Denali” last week at the PASS 2011 Summit, it...

Query Memory Spills

When you sometimes look at Execution Plans, you can see that the SELECT operator has
sometimes a so-called Memory Grant assigned....

No longer just an admin but a DB Astronaut : A poem.

Today we have a guest post from Phil Factor as Brad is on vacation.
‘ I used to fettle databases as...