I was working on the demo’s for my Practical Performance Monitoring Pre-Con at this years IT / Dev Connections in San Francisco and I have to admit I got a little giddy.  The session is geared towards helping a DBA get started in monitoring their SQL Server Instances, especially when they don’t have the ability to buy a 3rd party ...

  My next performance class will be in San Francisco, CA on May 9th thru the 11th. I haven’t been to San Francisco in about 10 years and I am looking forward to getting back there. The material is a bit refined over the first class and I added a few more real world examples so it should be a fun and educational 3 days. If you want to spend a ...

While I have been speaking about Best Practices for years this is the first time that I will speak at an actual Best Practices conference :).  I have 3 sessions entitled: SQL Server Configuration Best Practices Storage and I/O Best Practices for SQL Server Performance Monitoring Best Practices for SQL Server and I am actually ...