I wanted to take a minute to draw some attention to a few things in this month’s SQL Server Magazine.  If you’ve gotten your copy of SQLMag, you’ll notice poster that's a really great reference guide for SQL Server system stored procedures.  This outstanding poster can hang in your cube or office and outlines the function and syntax of ...

I'll be at the Hyatt Rosemont (near the airport) all day on Thursday presenting on Virtualization and Consolidation for SQL Server environments.  Several other experts will be joining me, including fellow SQLblogger John Paul Cook.  There's lots of great content and the training session lasts all day.  There's even a free lunch ...

Quest is once again hosting one of my quarterly seminars this Wednesday, Nov 14, at the Seattle Hilton.  The seminar is a free, half-day event focusing on scaling out VLDBs on SQL Server and on disk and IO tuning in a SQL Server 2005 environment.  (It is not a sales or marketing pitch!) If you can spare some time on Wednesday morning, ...