My favorite event at Microsoft's TechEd 2008 conference held in Orlando this year was a roundtable discussion about automating DBA work with several other SQL Server experts.  The session was moderated by Allen White and included myself, Dan Jones (of Microsoft), Steve Jones (of SQL Server Central fame), and Buck Woody (also of Microsoft, ...

For some reason, the title of this blog post makes me grin because it evokes a mental image of one guy trying to comically strangle another guy.  But I digress…   Speaking at a user group meeting recently, an attendee asked whether the mirroring process had any capability to speed up or slow down its workload according to the amount of ...

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 ...