PASS Summit: Day 1 Keynote, Part 3

Ted Kummert is still talking.
For the cloud, of course, they’re talking about SQL Azure. Microsoft really is throwing themselves into...

PASS Summit: Day 1 Keynote, Part 2

Mark Souza from the SQL CAT Team, some of the smartest & most capable of MS consultants in SQL Server, is...

PASS Summit: Day 1 Keynote, Part 1

Sitting at the big kids table at the PASS Summit, ready to rock and roll. The Summit has not officially...

SQLPASS Day 1: Keynote Live Blog

Day 1 Keynote Jumps the Shark with Tina Turner Impersonator

I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:38 local time.
You wouldn’t guess...

Finding CPU Pressure - dm_os_schedulers DMV

The last post dealt with checking CPU pressure using wait_stats DMV. But, to get a complete picture of CPU Pressure,...

PASS Summit 2010-Monday

I’m writing this on Tuesday morning, Monday was a blur. I awoke at 4 am, finally decided that sleep wasn’t...

PASS Summit 2010–Sunday

My day started at 5:15 to get moving for the airport. Arrived right at 2 hours early to find that...

Join Me This Week At PASS

This week at the PASS Community Summit in Seattle, I’m delivering two full length sessions, one lightening session, and chairing...

SQL Server 2011 - Code Name "Denali" & BOL

Many information via Twitter, LinkedIN, forums, blogs, including also here in SSC, have announced about new incmoing version of the...

November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries

Apparently, when I posted this a few days ago, the Windows Live Writer plug-in that I used mangled the T-SQL...