TechEd 2014 Here I Come

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that I will be speaking at TechEd 2014 North America. This year I’ll be giving a very similar presentation to the one that I gave last year titled “Introduction to SQL Server Management for the non-DBA”. Last year this session was VERY popular with a very full […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for February 21, 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. Troubleshooting Common Performance Problems with Memory-Optimized Hash Indexes Recovering the tail end of the transaction log Wait Statistics in SQL Server SQL Server – Automatic Page Repair in Database Mirroring Japan’s Nuclear […]

Old vSphere, Large VMs, and Some Really “Funky” Problems

Recently a client was having some IO performance problems so they decided that the easiest solution would be to through an SSD under the log files on the VM. Easy and cheap solution. The server in question has about 50 databases on it. In order to speed up the transaction log file transfer I decided […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for February 14, 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. What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov 10 Tips to Master the Mysterious Developer Interview Ask Professor Kevin Fu About Medical Device Security Think Before Starting a Community U.S. Olympic bobsledder Johnny Quinn […]