Virtual Presentation Tomorrow

I’ll be presenting a practice run at one of my PASS Summit presentations, Identifying Common Performance Problems using Execution Plans,...

New Book on Query Optimizer

Benjamin Nevarez (blog) has been working really hard on a book on the Query Optimizer. It just got finished in...

SQL Rally: One Day on Query Performance Tuning

The SQLRally, a new PASS initiative taking place in the spring, is going to be a community driven event. This...

Another Must See Session

I can’t believe I missed this one in all the posts and recommendations I’ve been making about great sessions coming...

SQL Rally Voting

I received word over the weekend that my precon application had made it past committee and was now subject to...

Who You Learn From

Less than two weeks to go until the PASS Summit. I’m excited. I’ve managed to cram a ton of activities...

The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development

This book shows how to use of mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools,
and tools from the Red Gate SQL Toolbelt, to successfully develop database applications in a team environment,
and make database development as similar as possible to "normal" development.

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Kilt Day at the PASS Summit

Last year, with the infinite power at my disposal (read, zero), I declared Wednesday, Kilt Wednesday at the PASS Summit. It took...

Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing

Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

I’ve got a couple of more sessions before the big two at the PASS Summit. Tomorrow night, October 20th, I’ll...