Download the new white paper: How to Use SQL Server’s Extended Events and Notifications to Proactively Resolve Performance Issues SQL Server comes with a wide array of tools for monitoring your environment. There are logs and traces that provide information when errors occur, but these are often used passively to react to events that have already occurred. There's PerfMon, and Profiler, and loads of Dynamic Management Views to check. But where to look? As database administrators (DBA), we need to monitor our environments proactively and create solutions as issues arise. In this white … [Read more...]
My daughters are crazed!
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Completely normal, I assure you.This is also completely normal. If by "normal", you mean totally out of control.And here too, we're being totally normal. … [Read more...]
Old Albaquerque
April 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
On a recent biz trip, I was able to visit oldtown Albaquerque. Very atmospheric and charming. Here's a snap of the old mission church. … [Read more...]
Laguna Hills Sunset
April 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I traveled back to the Quest HQ a couple months ago and was able to enjoy a very nice dinner with several of my colleagues.I snapped this photo with my cell phone as we walked from the parking lot to the restaurant. You can make out Catalina Island on the horizon. Just beautiful. … [Read more...]
The Italian Always Finds a Way Out
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Anna somehow seems more Italian lately. Maybe it's puberty? … [Read more...]
Katie’s Premature Aging Problem
April 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
She looks like an old Scottish man! … [Read more...]
Spring SQL Cruise
April 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I was especially blessed to be chosen as a speaker and instructor for SQLCruise.com.The SQLCruise concept is simple - let's hold classes for IT professionals on a cruise ship. We conduct our classes while at sea and, when in port, we conduct some outings and generally have fun.This trip we went to the Bahamas, the Netherland Antilles, and the US Virgin Islands. Here's one of the vistas on St Maartins. Fun snorkeling between the beach on those two islands too!One of the attendees knew me and even had one of my embarrassing rockstar shirts that Quest made up a year or two … [Read more...]
