Best of PASS Summit 2014

I am very proud to announce that one of my PASS Summit 2014 sessions was selected as one of the Top 10...

Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd

As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical...

Selected as a PernixPro

Today I’d like to announce that I have been selected as a PernixPro for 2015! It’s a program similar to...

New SQL Server Blog Author Challenge

My good friend Ed Leighton-Dick has created a great new challenge, adapted from a challenge issued by Seth Godin back...

SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins – SQL Saturday Madison Precon

I am pleased to announce a brand new pre-conference training session, entitled “SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins“, to be...

Keep VM snapshot growth from wrecking your day

VM snapshots are one of the best virtualization features ever. But…have you ever had a VMware vSphere or Hyper-V snapshot...

Presenting with Tegile at Lincoln SQL Server Users Group Thursday

This Thursday I will be joining an open discussion with Tegile Systems and the Lincoln SQL Server Users Group on...

Presenting for Omaha SQL Server Users Group Wednesday

I am pleased to be presenting a highly interactive session tomorrow evening that is a full end-to-end setup and management...

Book Review: Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware

It’s not often that you’ll see me write a lengthy book review. Most book reviews are fluff telling you to...

SQL Cruise Caribbean 2015 Wrap Up

I just returned home from this year’s SQL Cruise in the Caribbean. WOW!

This trip was our first SQL Cruise, but it...