New Starts of Data organizers asked us to tell our story about how we started. I want to thank William Durkin (T) and Ben Weissman (B|T) for this great initiative that has produced over 100 new speakers. Wednesday, October 14, 2015, I did my first lightning talk, ‘Manging SQL Agent Job History,’ at New England […]
View Event: What the heck is a checkpoint, and why should I care?An 8K page is the fundamental unit of data storage in SQL Server. For performance reasons, SQL Server performs every data modification operation in memory (buffer pool) and does not write it back to disk immediately. This is where checkpoint comes into play. […]
View Event: SQL Assessment – Microsoft’s Best Practices CheckerDo you want to get the current 244 suggested best practices from the SQL Server Team and evaluate your environments? These best practices are available for all instances, from your Data Center to the cloud. In this demo session (Yes, no slides), I will show you both […]
View Event: Azure SQL Database-Business Continuity During Disaster Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on the latest version of the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine. You can build data-driven applications and websites in the programming language of your choice without needing to manage infrastructure. While considering Azure SQL Database, two of the […]
View Event: Microsoft’s Best Practices Checker Do you want to get more than 200 suggested best practices from the SQL Server team and evaluate your environments? These best practices are available for all instances, from your data center to the cloud. In this demo session (yes, no slides), we will explore both the “what” and […]
