At PASS Summit earlier this year, Bob Ward an Escalation Engineer in Microsoft Product Support, vowed to create a Wait Type Repository over on the PSS Blog that does a better job of documenting SQL Server Wait Types to assist the community.  He create a blog post that he is updating over time to document the wait types in SQL Server. The SQL ...

A comment was posted on my blog post The benefits of attending PASS realized! asking for a follow up as a result of investigating this problem.  In that post, I mentioned that a high number of unused connections in oversized connection pools were causing the problem.  Unfortunately that information was incorrect, and thanks to some ...

A lot of conversation this year occurred regarding return on investment (ROI) justifications tending the PASS Summit.  Lets face it, the economy has been tough on a lot of businesses and the idea of spending a few thousand dollars on conference admission, flights and hotels was a harder sell for some people.  I know a lot of people who ...