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 […]

SQL Saturday Atlanta 2014 Slides Posted

For those who attended my session at SQL Saturday Atlanta, I thank you for coming to my session. The room was packed with just one or two open seats for my SQL Server In Memory Objects Presentation. I had a great time giving the session (even though I wasn’t feeling very well at the time) […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for May 02, 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. One Preparation that makes SSMS Crash Dumps Easy to Survive Automation? Think Causation, not Correlation How http://t.co/fUV2kdHPeX Changed the Software Testing Conversation Database Backup with Memory-Optimized Tables Skewed Data – Poor Cardinality […]