Making time for the family.
Working in IT can be a fun and exciting career, however it can also be an extremely demanding one. When working in IT you have to find a balance between work and family. Without finding that balance you’ll end up with either a very unhappy employer or a very unhappy family. Myself I am very […]
What is the BACKUPTHREAD wait type?
If you have ever seen the BACKUPTHREAD wait type in the sysprocesses table or sp_who2 output and wondered what it is, I have found the answer.
What is Service Broker?
For those familiar with Microsoft Message Queue you will find that Service Broker is very similar to MSMQ but is native to the Microsoft SQL Server.
Easy way to read XML execution plans.
A great way to easily read the XML execution plan that SQL can produce.