Monthly Archives: January 2012

January’s Performance VC LiveMeeting: In the books!

Yesterday was the first LiveMeeting hosted by the Performance Virtual Chapter in 2012 and it went very well, in spite of a few glitches!  I am so proud of our team; it was a solid team effort.  Carlos ( b | t ) had asked Jason Strate ( b | t ) to be our…

Statistics and Recompilations

A couple weeks ago I was asked to look at system performance for a customer, and as part of my investigation I found a high read query.  I had run a trace and filtered for anything over 10,000 reads and saw a query that required around 32,000 reads, and it was running at least once…

Backups and Disk Space

I was in Phoenix last week to visit a customer, and I saw an email come through regarding a customer who contacted support because they discovered they were missing data from a table.  The customer contacted support on Friday morning and our team was engaged almost immediately.  The data loss had been discovered on Thursday…

Introducing the 2012 Performance Virtual Chapter Team

In late November I wrote a post  asking for volunteers for the Performance Virtual Chapter.  There was a great response, and many thanks to those who replied!  Without further ado, let me introduce the Performance VC team for 2012:  Speaker Wrangler: Carlos Bossy ( b | t ) I briefly met Carlos at the SQLSaturday…