As I've been traveling around speaking at various SQL Server user groups, I get requests for my slide decks.  Of course, I'm happy to share those, but I've got one better for you.  As it turns out, you can find five of my most recent webcasts here.  These are recorded webcasts that you can listen to any time.  I believe that ...

SQL Server MVP Kent Tegels recently raise an interesting question. SQL Server publishes a number of performance counters. In the code he's written that publishes performance counter data, he's had to explictly code the counter updates within his code regardless of knowing if any processes were consuming those ...