Using SQL Sentry Plan Explorer to Shed Light on Estimated Execution Plans

Note: While I do have business relationships with many vendors, I do not have one with SQL Sentry aside from attending their great annual party at the PASS Summit. SQL Server allows us to have access to two types of execution plans, estimated and actual. Actual execution plans give us the real row counts and […]

Fixing a storage pool that doesn’t have an read-write server

Recently I was working on a clients file server cluster and while doing some troubleshooting with Microsoft Support one of the clustered disks wouldn’t respond correctly.  Now this file server cluster is setup in Azure so it is using SIOS Data Keeper to replicate the data between the nodes of the cluster. The state that…

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Session’s Are a Specific Length For A Reason

Nothing irks me more when I walk into my session room than the prior presenter still standing up there doing his thing eating into my 15 minutes of prep/setup time. Conferences have fixed length sessions for a reason. So that the audience knows how long the session will be, so that the presenter knows how […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for November 28, 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. Questions for the Board Q&A The MVP Global Summit: A Virtuous Cycle Why I Support PASS & Why I Criticize PASS What PASS is to me #sqlpass How come sys.dm_exec_requests.cpu_time never moves? […]