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Day 26 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: The Mysterious Case of the Long Backup
Welcome back for day 26 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. Today I want to share a tale of a mysterious backup that was running too long, and as the SAN admin reported, nothing had changed in...
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Network Packet Size: to Fiddle With or Not to Fiddle With
A network pipeline isn’t nearly as pleasant to look at as the oil pipeline (or anything) in Alaska, but it’s something that DBAs should be aware of. There is a server configuration in SQL Server that...
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Bug: sys.dm_db_session_space_usage Reporting Extremely High Tempdb Allocations
A little more than a year ago while working at Idera, I was consulted on reports from a few clients using the Idera monitoring tool SQL diagnostic manager (SQLdm). SQLdm was reporting very high...
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Enabling High Performance Power Plan via PowerShell
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently was to automate our production SQL Server installs including our standard configuration changes. Much of this process was already done by my...
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Performance Tuning Pre-con and More at SQLSaturday 277 RVA
Join me for 2 days of fun and education at SQL Saturday #277 in Richmond, VA on March 21 and 22, 2014. I will be delivering an all-day pre-con session, Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Like a...
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Why is Your SQL Server Slow? All-for-one and One-for-all
I have one more thing I want to talk about regarding the conversation I had recently with my friends and former colleagues at Idera about the things that slow down SQL Server. Another “quick...
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Size Matters: 2 Products to Accelerate SQL Traffic
I talked previously about network pipelines and how to get the most out of a fat network in the post Network Packet Size: to Fiddle With or Not to Fiddle With. If you need to move large amounts of...
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Speaking at SQL PASS Summit 2014
I am honored to be selected to deliver 2 sessions at the SQL PASS Summit 2014. I will be delivering a half day session on administering BI systems and a regular session on techniques for indexing. If...
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Performance Counters: Why It Depends
When you’re working through some vague performance issues (e.g., “SQL Server seems slow today”), one of the common things to do is to collect some performance counters. If you are collecting...
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Oklahoma City User Group Presentation Files
Earlier this week, I got the opportunity to present online for the Oklahoma City SQL Server User Group on SQL Server Mythconceptions and Mythteries. The files from my presentation are attached below...
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SQLSaturday 461: Join Me For a Full Day of Performance Training in Austin
Join me Friday, January 29, 2016 for a full day of performance tuning training as part of SQLSaturday 461 in Austin, TX. Then stick around for the main event on Saturday where I will be among the many...
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T-SQL Tuesday #73: Never Made That Mistake Again
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly community-wide blogging event created by Adam Machanic (blog|@AdamMachanic), and everyone is invited to particpate. This month’s blog post party — I like that phrase, it has...
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T-SQL Tuesday #74: Ch-ch-changes
Welcome to my contribution for T-SQL Tuesday 74 being hosted by me. So special thanks to me for hosting it. Good job me, I’ll buy me a beer next time I see me to thank me properly. But enough about...
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Attendee Questions from My #24HoP Presentation
I want to once again thank everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session last week. I especially appreciate the questions that were asked. We did not have time for all questions, so I want to...
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T-SQL Tuesday #83: Resource Governor CAP_CPU_PERCENT: It just runs faster?
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #83 being hosted this month by Andy Mallon (blog|@AMTwo). This month’s topic is “We’re still dealing with the same problems”. If you would like to participate in this month’s...
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T-SQL Tuesday #87 – New Way to See Wait Stats for a Single Query
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #87 being hosted this month by Matt Gordon (blog|@sqlatspeed). This month’s topic is “Fixing Old Problems with Shiny New Toys”. The old problem I’m going to talk about is...
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2016/2017 Whitepaper Updates
One of the problems with whitepapers is that they get out of date pretty quickly. It’s important to update them regularly to keep them relevant. A few of my older whitepapers have been updated by my...
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T-SQL Tuesday #90: The Death of the DBA in a DevOps World Has Been Greatly...
It’s time for another iteration of the blog party known as T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s theme is Shipping Database Changes hosted by James Anderson (|@). Head on over to John’s announcement post and...
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Real-life SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting at SQLSaturday Columbus
Join me Friday, July 21, 2017 for a day of Real-life SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting as part of SQLSaturday Columbus at Otterbein University Campus Center in Columbus, OH. Register for...
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Time Zones are a Drag … Seriously
Time Zones were definitely being a drag today. I got an email from one of the developers at work asking about the performance difference between 2 queries. The only difference between the 2 queries is...
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