Powershell Saturday in Tampa on March 19th, 2016

I was interested/intrigued to see that we’ll have a Powershell Saturday on March 19th in Tampa. This will be the...

One Note is the new WordPad

For all those still using Microsoft Word to take memos, prepare templates for email, preparing to do lists or even...

Transaction Logging & Recovery (101)

Logging & Recovery Notes from SQL Server Logging, Recovery, and the Transaction Log (pluralsight) Paul Randal
Going to share some key points...

A day in the Stream

Explore the little function called sys.fn_MSxe_read_event_stream and discover just a little bit more of what Extended Events may be doing behind the scenes with the live data viewer.
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A day in the Stream

Enough talk of the GUI with Extended Events (see previous articles in the series if you want to revisit the...

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...

Monday Morning SQL Break – January 4, 2016

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

Query the Buffer Pool

SQL Server's buffer pool is a majority of your memory, but most DBAs can't tell you what's in it.

Query the Buffer Pool

DBAs are known for asking for more memory, but often can’t say what’s in memory.  While I agree that many...

2015 a year in review

It’s a new year, so time to look back at the previous year, and forward to the next. I’ll tell...