For the past few months I have been following a customer issue that started way back in November of last year (2010). The customer is one of my personal favorites. Our application is business critical in their environment. If it isn’t available, employees have nothing to do. The database is large – nearly a terabyte…
Category Archives: Performance
Meme Monday: Eleven Words or Less
Profiler : unfiltered :: train : wreck This post is part of Tom LaRock’s Meme Monday series ( @SQLRockstar ). I was tagged by Jeremiah Peschka ( blog | @jpeschka ) and Dave Howard ( blog | @DaveH0ward ) and challenged to write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less. SAT analogies popped into…
On the Fifth Day of SQL…
Welcome to the Twelve Days of SQL series hosted by Brent Ozar ( blog | @BrentO ), I have the honor of hosting the fifth day! I won’t be passing out golden rings, but I did want to share one of my favorite posts from the year. Parallelism, Processing and Options In May, Adam Machanic…
Seek and ye shall find
When I was thinking up names for this blog, I had a hard time not using the name my husband uses for his fantasy baseball team: The Stellato Heels. It’s great, isn’t it? I can boast about how fabulous it is because I didn’t think of it. I had great visions for the logo. Just…
