Monthly Archives: August 2011

SQLskills Training, Day 3: Hello Extended Events!

It’s the end of day 3, and I admit, I didn’t even get this post started this morning…but that certainly isn’t because I wasn’t looking forward to today.  Most of today was presented by Jonathan ( t ), and we started with Extended Events.  I am glad we did this first! I took a lot…

T-SQL Tuesday #21: Crap Code

It’s after midnight and I’ve missed the deadline for Adam Machanic’s ( b | t )  TSQLTuesday event this month.  But would I miss the chance to talk about some crap code that I’ve written?  Of course not!  When I read Adam’s post  I went looking for a specific script I wrote back in 2006.  Yes,…

SQLskills Training, Day 2: Here’s Jonathan

Today starts the second day of SQLskills training, and this day is all Jonathan ( b | t ).  That means we’ll be learning about things like SANs, the SQLOS and Extended Events.  It’s a big day.  One thing I’m looking forward to is hearing Jonathan explain how a SAN takes a backup of a database (quickly)…

SQLskills Training, Day 1: Here We Go

It’s here.  Today’s the first day of SQLskills training.  I will not be live-tweeting or live-blogging the training (both impossible) but I am going to try and provide one update during lunch, and another at the end of the day.  We’ll see how that goes!  I have no idea what that will do in my…