Comments on Acceptable Behavior

Here’s the situation. We’re absolutely falling down as men and professionals. Ladies, feel free to read on and comment, but...

AlwaysOn Failover Bug

I just found a little bug in AlwaysOn. It’s actually not that big a deal, but it’s interesting. In a...

SQL Server Log Backups

While presenting a session on Common Backup Problems both at SQL Saturday in Orange County and at SQL Connections in...

Execution Plan for a User Defined Function

When you execute a multi-statement user-defined function you may see an execution plan that looks something like this:

It appears as...

TDE and Compression

I knew that enabling TDE would cause the information stored within to, effectively, be randomized, which means it would seriously...

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn & A Thorough Setup

It’s surprisingly easy to set up the new AlwaysOn features. I’ve done it on VMs running on my laptop, from...

Let’s Talk

I’m travelling to several upcoming events and I’d love to sit down and talk with you. Yes, I get it,...

Avoiding Bad Query Performance

There’s a very old saying, “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
And my evidence today is:

That’s certainly not...

Meme Monday: Deadlines

Tom LaRock (blog|twitter) has assigned an interesting topic for Meme Monday this month, working with deadlines.
Some people hate deadlines. Some...

Learning, Networking & Wine

Let’s say, you want to spend a couple of days learning about SQL Server. You also want to spend some...