Replay your workload through the Query Store Replay script!

One of the great features of the Query Store is that it stores query execution plans and runtime performance on-disk...

New whitepaper with ScaleArc

I’m pleased to announce a new collaborative whitepaper with ScaleArc entitled “Improving uptime and performance of legacy apps on Microsoft...

PowerShell : Monitoring and Notification – Disk Space Alerts

“Microsoft Technet Guru – Gold Medal Winning Article- Nov, 2016”

Abstract
Monitoring disk space utilization of server(s) is the critical and important job for...

PASS Board: Year-End Wrap-Up

This month concludes my second full year on the PASS Board of Directors and my first full year on the...

Announcing Tuga IT 2017

Its the right time & the right moment of the year to announce the 2nd edition of the ultimate portuguese IT...

:OUT :OUT darn results!

Years ago I worked for a company that had a rather cool way of handling requests. When we ran the...

Invoke-SqlCmd and error results

Don’t trust Invoke-SqlCmd and error resultsI love to call Invoke-sqlcmd from powershell but one must beware of the risk of...

Speaking at SQLSaturday Nashville!

Speaking at SQLSaturday Nashville!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Nashville on January 14th 2017! This will be my first speaking event this year...

Speaking at SQLSaturday Nashville!

Speaking at SQLSaturday Nashville!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Nashville on January 14th 2017! This...

The Trails We Leave

Over the weekend I got an email from have i been pwned, a website that tracks data breaches and notifies...