June 2009 - Posts

• Best Thing that I learned at PASS

  I remember my first PASS Summit in Denver in January 2002 (Delayed from Sep 2001 in Orlando due to Sep 11). One of the last sessions that I attended was led by Fabian Pascal. He runs a website called www.dbdebunk.com and is rather entertaining at times. Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:55 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Conferences, Education, Events, fun, SQL Community

• Webcast on Enhancing your SQL Server Skills with SQL Server Express

  Chuck Heinzelman and I are on the Advisory Board for the THRIVE Campaign by Microsoft. The THRIVE campaign is about getting people to use tools that they already own or are FREE to download in order to learn/enhance new skills. I thought right away about Read More... Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 9:56 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Education, Events, Express, SQL 2008, SQL Community

• Perfmon for VMWare ESX

  Recently, I needed to capture some performance data from the host of a virtualized SQL Server. There is a utility called "esxtop" that if run from the ESX Host Command Line, it displays text-based information in columns similar to that which you see in Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:49 PM by RickHeiges | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance, SQL Server Performance, VM