On Disaster Recovery and my SQL Rally 2011 Presentation

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 […]

I’m Speaking at the PASS Summit 2011

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 […]

Ever wonder what DUMP_LOG_COORDINATOR_QUEUE wait is?

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 […]

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 May Disable Your Hyper-V Network Bridge

In a previous blog post, I talked about configuring my laptop to run Hyper-V and enabling my wireless network adapter to work within a virtual machine. While it may have worked for me in the past, I noticed one day that my wireless no longer worked inside my virtual machine. I tried to figure out […]