by bobtaylor29708 | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here is a common scenario – you are performing a benchmark operation. You run your PerfMon file through the PAL tool (http://pal.codeplex.com). You are seeing massive disk queuing, high latency, high privleged processor time. You talk to your SAN engineers and...
by bobtaylor29708 | Mar 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was in Atlanta uyesterday speaking as part of the SQL Server Special Ops Tour – we had overflow audience. We had about 275 registered and 340 showed up! If you have to live in Columbus, OH I will be there on March 13th and in Boston, MA on March 28th…...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jan 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
I plan on releasing the next installment of The Extended Events series on Monday so watch for that. I finished up my work as the technical reviewer on William Stanek’s book Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant – the ISBN is 978-0-7356-6376-3 which...
by bobtaylor29708 | Dec 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Just like any good tool man, whenever you get a new tool The first thing you should do is to read the instruction manual and familiarize yourself with the general operation of the tool. During this first installment, we will do just that. As mentioned we are...
by bobtaylor29708 | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
In this series I will examine an important tool in the DBA’s toolbox – Extended Events While Extended Events were present in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2, they were not widely adopted as a DBA tool. This was partially due to the fact that...
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