[SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 101 – Baseline with PAL Tools
Welcome to Part 1 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand...
2014-09-17
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TheSqlPro.com - Ayman El-Ghazali
Dear IT Guy, Customer Service is part of your job
It may be true that you are one of a kind, a true techie with specialized skills that are hard...
2014-09-04
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Dear IT Guy, Why do you hesitate to attend my meetings?
I was attending Microsoft’s on-boarding training last week and one of the managers there mentioned that a lot of IT...
2014-08-28
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly of my extended job search
Now that I’ve finally started a new job (explains why I haven’t blogged for a while) I can discuss my...
2014-08-25
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SQL Saturday 294 Philadelphia Lessons Learned
Being in Philadelphia this past weekend was fantastic! I got to meet a lot of old friends, spend time with...
2014-06-09
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SQL Saturday 294 Philadelphia, Nostalgic!
Less than a week left and I’m extremely excited about SQL Saturday in Philly on June 7th, 2014 and the...
2014-06-02
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[SQL Snacks Video] SQL Server Table Partitioning 103
Welcome back for part 3 of my SQL Snack Pack on Table Partitioning! If you have not watched the first two...
2014-04-28
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SQL Server Internals Presentation Double Time!
I’ll be doing double time over the next two weeks with Two Presentations on SQL Server Internals. It is essentially...
2014-04-22
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[SQL Snacks Video] SQL Server Table Partitioning 102
Welcome back for part 2 of my SQL Snack Pack on Table Partitioning! If you have not watched the first...
2014-04-15
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[SQL Snacks Video] SQL Server Table Partitioning 101
I hope you’re hungry for another SQL Snack! In fact, this will be one of a series of snacks (dare...
2014-04-08
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