To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL Server blog title and to be fair it is. Those who do know me, will know that I have been presenting a session this year titled “Natural Born Killers, performance issues to avoid” around the [...]
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL Server blog title and to be fair it is. Those who do know me, will know that I have been presenting a session this year titled “Natural Born Killers, performance issues to avoid” around the [...]
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL Server blog title and to be fair it is. Those who do know me, will know that I have been presenting a session this year titled “Natural Born Killers, performance issues to avoid” around the [...]
SET STATISTICS IO ON does pretty much what you would expect, it returns information about IO back to your UI as a message. Why is this important? Well it helps you to understand just how much IO has been performed broken down by object. It actually breaks it down further than that, but we’ll cover that once we’ve seen how it works.
Tonight I am organising a User Group at Maidenhead in the UK which marks the start of a huge month of SQL Server for me, but more on that later.
Some of you may recall in January I ran a series of interviews entitled “New Year Aspirations”. This interview was held back from the series in order to coincide with SQL Relay that is taking place 17th-20th and 24th-27th June. So grab a glass of your favourite beverage and sit back and read an insight [...]
Oh my god, there are so many events happening this month it is crazy. I’m going to break with tradition and start off with an event that is not in the UK. Right now TechEd is running in North America and just today Microsoft announced SQL Server 2014, you can read my post on it [...]
As the world is going green, Microsoft announced today that it is going “Blue”. Confused? I’ll explain all…
Things are really ramping up in May and June this year, it’s a great time to be an IT Professional with so much free SQL Server training available! This month there are 9 events planned including the Europe’ premier SQL Server SQLBits. If you haven’t heard of SQLBits before then go over to their site http://www.SQLBits.com for more details. [...]
Earlier this year I had the chance to collaborate on my first ever white paper “Top 10 Tips for Optimizing SQL Server Performance” with Patrick O’Keeffe who is Director of Software Development at Dell Software Group. I must say, it was a really interesting experience.