After successfully upgrading a multi-instance SQL Server 2005 Failover Cluster to SQL Server 2008 R2, I got woken up today by a page from a SQL Server Agent job failure. Knowing that the job was created by one of my colleagues, I ignored it for a while since it only runs once a week and […]
Yesterday, I saw a Twitter post regarding the speaker evaluation results from SQL Rally 2011 in Orlando, FL last May. I was surprised to see that my session was in the top 3 best sessions of the conference. I dug up the Excel spreadsheet containing my session evaluation results and began to read. I found […]
And, so I was selected. When I opened up my mail client earlier today, there it was- the email from the PASS Program Committee about the session selection results. I’ve submitted four (4) sessions for this year’s summit. In the past, I’ve tried to avoid doing technical presentations and focus more on doing soft skills […]
If you’ve used wait statistics to do performance tuning on your SQL Server systems, I doubt that you would ever see this on your top waits (or if even shows up at all). You would rarely find anything on the Internet about this wait type, although, I did find a placeholder from SQLServerpedia for future […]
It’s a privilege for me to be a part of Microsoft Talk TechNet – the Talk radio for IT Pros. This coming Friday, 8-Apr-2011 9AM Pacific Time, join me as we talk about anything related to managing and administering SQL Server. If you know anybody who’s into administering SQL Server, you can pass this information around. Event […]