Every year at PASS, I do the same thing. I hmm and haw over which sessions I want to go to, and I end up making some tough choices at game time.  This year I believe I'll be pretty busy, so my typical pie-in-the-sky view of how much I'll be able to attend just isn't going to pan out.  Instead, I have selected 5 sessions that I really ...

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on Advanced Extended Events at the PASS Summit this last week in Seattle. I just went to the PASS web site and noticed that they still haven't put the demos up for download. So just in case you're dying to play around with this hot technology as soon as humanly possible, I thought I should post here. No ...

SQL Server 2008 Extended Events. It's a high-performance, feature-rich, and extremely useful tracing system. Too bad it's so difficult to figure out how to use it! Or is it? Earlier this week Jonathan Kehayias announced his SSMS addin for Extended Events, which makes it super-easy to create and manage events, and even view the raw event data. ...