Achievement Unlocked – SQL Bits
Several weeks ago, while on a flight traveling home from San Francisco, I received an exciting email. I had submitted to speak at SQL Bits and during my flight I was notified that one of my submitted sessions had been selected. This means that I’ll be traveling to Manchester, England for my first international conference. […]
Azure Virtual Machine Boot Diagnostics
If you have ever rebooted a virtual machine and feel like you are in the dark to it’s current state, you aren’t alone. Thankfully, Azure provides a number of tools to aid in your experience in the cloud when it comes to “reboot darkness”. Boot diagnostics allows you to see the state of your virtual […]
Modern Hardware with 64 CPUs
In today’s world, more often then not you might run into systems that have large beefy hardware. Hundreds of gigabytes of memory, ultra fast solid state disks and many CPUs to push your workloads. These types of systems are no longer unicorns in the wild but are becoming more and more prevalent. Further more, in […]
Microsoft Update Catalog
In today’s world of database administrations, there are a plethora of tools and resources that can be available to utilize to help solve problems, such as performance tuning, configuration, and many others. Some are third party tools, some are free, and some are provided by the vendor themselves. Regardless of which tool or resource you […]