Say Thank You

I was approached by a man at SQL Bits who only wanted to thank me for blogging. He said, “I...

Speaker of the Month: August 2014

Speaker of the Month is now officially one year old.
I went back and reread my first post. The goals were...

Challenge Accepted

There seemed to be some question whether my comfort level with my own masculinity would prevent me from wearing these:

Oh...

Victims of Success

I took part in the PASS Summit 2014 selection committee this year because I was really curious about seeing how...

Execution Plan Details

I wouldn’t say it’s common knowledge that you should look at execution plans when tuning queries, but it’s not exactly...

Speaker of the Month, July 2014

Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...

Worst Day of a DBAs Life

Red Gate Software is running a campaign around coping with the worst day of a DBAs life. We’ve been posting...

Reflections on the 2014 PASS Summit Selection Process

Oh we are a bunch of high school kids at heart. Maybe high school never ends (and there’s a nightmare,...

Statistics and Natively Compiled Procedures

Statistics are one of the single most important driving factors for the behavior of the query optimizer. The cardinality estimates...

The Curse of Working With A DBA

I no more than finished my rant from last week than I started thinking about all the reasons why a...