I originally wrote this post last Thursday night, August 11th, at the end of day four of SQLskills training. However, I was exhausted and went to bed after writing, without publishing. I am now finally catching up… Ok, I’m tired. I knew it would happen this week, where I kind of hit a wall. I…
Category Archives: Performance
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…
Ready for Training: The Content
Next week I am heading to Seattle for 5 days of SQLskills training. In honor of the event (yes, I’m that excited about it and I’ve deemed it an event), I thought I’d do 5 days of posts covering what I’m looking forward to and why. I. The Content For anyone not familiar with SQLskills and…
A case of slow performance on Windows 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 was released in 2009, but we still have many customers on Windows 2003 (and probably some on Windows 2000 I’m sure). I’ve run into an issue with two customers when they upgraded their SQL Server and Windows version at the same time, and thought I would share the details in case…
