February 6, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
Performance,
Query tuning,
SQL Server,
Tech Ed,
Tech Ed 2012,
Tech Ed Europe,
Tech Ed North AmericaIf you are headed to Microsoft's Tech Ed North America or Tech Ed Europe you should really look at signing up for a SQL Server Pre-Con. The pre-cons are full day sessions focusing on a specific topic, led by an industry expert. In the case of the SQL Server pre-con "Microsoft SQL Server...
January 10, 2012 12:20 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Performance,
SQL Server,
Tech Ed,
Tech Ed 2012,
Tech Ed EuropeNo matter how hard Europe tries to keep me away, I'll be back in June for the premier Microsoft conference, Tech Ed Europe 2012. And not only will I be attending, but little old me will be presenting a
December 15, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Performance,
Performance Problems,
SQL Server,
StorageThere are lots of great 3rd party monitoring tools on the market from a variety of vendors. I want to start this post by saying up front that I'm not bashing them, or throwing stones. That said...
Some of the time these third party apps don't handle reporting CXPACKET waits very well. The...
November 21, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Performance,
SQL Server,
Storage,
vCenter,
VMwareLike all databases the VMware vCenter database needs to have the disks configured properly for best possible performance. Don't get me wrong, if you've got a very small vCenter database that's only a couple of gigs in size then the disk size isn't all that big of a...
September 8, 2011 7:53 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
24 HoP,
Integration Services,
Performance,
RAM,
SQL PASS,
SQL Server,
SSIS,
Stacia MisnerThis is a total repost of Stacia's blog post from this morning so that hopefully everyone will see it. So pretend that Stacia wrote this and that I didn't.
