Archives for December 2016

DBTA – Here’s What You Missed at the Biggest Annual SQL Server Conference, PASS Summit 2016

If you are a SQL Server professional, but you don't know about the PASS Summit, then you are missing out. The annual conference is convened every fall in downtown Seattle, the backyard of Microsoft, and attracted over 6,000 attendees this year. And, since it's so close to the Microsoft Redmond campus, hundreds of the SQL Server developers and program managers get to attend—answering user questions, delivering sessions, and presenting chalk talks and panel discussions. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Get All of the Freebies for “End-to-End Troubleshooting Checklist for Microsoft SQL Server”

The Presentation: Slides, TSQL-Scripts, and Video One of my most enduring and popular presentations is called End-to-End Troubleshooting Checklist for Microsoft SQL Server". In this presentation, I take you through my six-step checklist from detection of a performance issue on SQL Server through identification of the root cause to remediation and finally post-mortem steps to ensure the problem is prevented (or at least detected immediately) in the future. Over the years, I've had many inquiries about the slides, T-SQL scripts, and additional troubleshooting information. I'm happy to … [Read more...]