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Adam Machanic, Boston-based independent database consultant, writer, and speaker, shares his experiences with programming, performance tuning, and optimizing SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008, in conjunction with related technologies such as .NET.
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What a rush . Standing on the stage in an almost-full 1,000-person room, I (very) momentarily wondered what I'd been thinking when I submitted a 500-level talk for the biggest SQL Server conference in the world. But despite a rough start--my laptop crashed Read More...
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Last Saturday, September 17, I was lucky to be able to present two sessions at an excellent SQL Saturday in the Atlanta area. The day drew a large crowd and had a great speaker lineup. All in all, a huge success, and a very well-managed event. Congratulations Read More...
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Autumn is creeping inevitably closer here in the US, and that means that speaking season is about to kick into high gear. Here's my current schedule for the remainder of the year: September 8, 17:00 GMT (online) - 24 Hours of PASS webcast: "Baseline Basics Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago I announced a two-day advanced performance seminar in New York City, which will be delivered in July. This seminar will cover SQLCLR and parallelism techniques to help you take performance well beyond the levels that typical tuning Read More...
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I am pleased to announce that I will be delivering two days of training in New York City, July 14 and 15. This seminar focuses on achieving "next-level" performance--going beyond that which you can gain via normal tuning methodologies . The vehicles for Read More...
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Thanks to everyone who took the time out of their conference experience to join Mike Wachal and me for yesterday's session on SQL Server performance tuning! For those who weren't there, we focused in on troubleshooting techniques, highlighting some of Read More...
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I am honored to have been selected for a second year in a row to present a full-day seminar at the PASS Summit. This year's seminar will be a "post-con", and will be delivered on Friday, November 12 . The title of the seminar is " A Day of Doing Many Read More...
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Last month a new PASS Virtual Chapter was introduced, one with a theme that is near and dear to much of what I like to work on: performance . Tomorrow, Tuesday August 3rd at noon Eastern time , the chapter will have its second meeting, and I will be doing Read More...
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Almost six years ago--in November of 2004--I posted what would turn out to be one of my most popular blog posts in terms of number of reads, " Performance: ISNULL vs. COALESCE ." (If you're curious, the post is dated July 2006 because I was too lazy it Read More...
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The sys.dm_exec_query_stats view is one of my favorite DMVs. It has replaced a large chunk of what I used to use SQL Trace for--pulling metrics about what queries are running and how often--and it makes this kind of data collection painless and automatic. Read More...
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We have just two weeks to go before Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp touch down in the Boston area to deliver their famous SQL Server Immersions course . This is going to be a truly fantastic SQL Server learning experience and we're hoping a few more people Read More...
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If you've been looking for advanced training in the northeast, your wait is over. Paul and Kimberly will be gracing us with one of their famous "SQL Server Immersion" events the week of March 29. This course will cover storage engine internals, indexing Read More...
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When working with time intervals, we often want to ask a couple of basic questions: Which time periods are not covered by our intervals? These are known as "gaps". What are the time ranges that we are fully covering? These are known as "islands". If you're Read More...
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UPDATE, April 28 2011: Who is Active v9.57 is outdated. Please use v11.00 instead. Happy December, SQLblog readers! My gift to you, just in time for the holidays: The newest "official" release of your favorite SQL Server activity monitoring stored procedure Read More...
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Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on Advanced Extended Events at the PASS Summit this last week in Seattle. I just went to the PASS web site and noticed that they still haven't put the demos up for download. So just in case you're dying to play Read More...
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