Speaking at PASS Summit 2012

It’s Not A Repeat
Speaking at the PASS Summit last year was one of the highlights of my career. I had...

First Try at a Wooden Hand Plane

I’ve been reading about wooden hand planes lately (as opposed to hand planes made of metal that plane wood) and...

Modify Host File on Windows 7

Modifying the Windows host file can be a great way to ensure that you don’t accidentally modify production while doing...

Updating to Live Writer 2012

My 2011 version of Live Writer didn’t seem to want to embed a Vimeo video, so I checked for an...

Speaking Tomorrow for Professional Development VC

As I blogged about previously, tomorrow (Wednesday) I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will...

Travel Plans for PASS-Done!

I’m flying in on Sunday again this year, arriving in time for lunch, and looking forward to the luxury of...

Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard

 Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...

Drive Size - PowerShell Script

The below script is used to find the disk size for a set of servers,

## Script to Find List of...

Database and Disk Size - PowerShell Script

Every time we do a capacity analysis we need to analyse the database size (free and used) and the disk...

Troubleshooting Performance - Top CPU Queries

Today I came accross white paper "Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server" by Sunil Agarwal, Boris Baryshnikov, Tom Davidson, Keith...