Stop Following Every Best Practice Document That You Find

There are a lot of best practice documents out there. Some are new, some are older. Some of worth while, others are crap. Some of the older ones were good at the time, but now are meaningless. Recently I was told that this best practices document is the gold standard that people should use.  Lets […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 29, 2014

This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Dude, who owns that #temp table? Avoiding a split brain in database mirroring Failed To Lock Virtual Machine’s Configuration SQL Server 2014 Performance Enhancements The Infinite Space Between Words This weeks SQL […]

PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol Competition

If you watched my SQL PASS 1st Timers webcast last week (which you can see the recording of here) you saw that I announced that this year the PASS Summit will be hosting it’s first ever speaker idol competition.  The goal behind the Speaker Idol competition is to give speakers who are known in their region […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 22, 2014

This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible How Automatic Updates to Statistics Can Affect Query Performance Azure SQL Database: Service Tiers & Performance Q&A […]