Now Is The Time To Review Disaster Recovery Plans

As we watch the fires which are raging in the San Diego area we should be reminded that now is the time to review our disaster recovery plans. Even if your home or company isn’t located in the San Diego area, the speed at which these fires came up and are spreading through the area […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for May 16, 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. FCIP – Connectivity over Distance Looking at read_microsec in sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors in SQL Server 2012 SQL Monitoring It Doesn’t Matter What You Think: Setting up the Linksys EA6900 TechTalk Episode 33 – OpenStack […]

Having the Right Tools Is Critical

In late March and early April I had a great two week vacation riding motorcycles around California, Nevada and Arizona with my wife Kris as well as Andre Kammen, his brother, neighbor and a few friends from Holland.  For the most part the trip was great, until April 8th when I hit a bit of sand […]

Come See Me at TechEd!

I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be at Microsoft’s TechEd conference this week presenting a session titled “Introduction to SQL Server Management for the Non-DBA” which is session DBI-B214 on Tuesday, May 13 at 10:15 AM. I’ll also be running one of the hands on labs which will be delivered twice during TechEd North America […]