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Adam Machanic, Boston-based SQL Server developer, shares his experiences with programming, monitoring, and performance tuning SQL Server. And the occasional battle with the query optimizer.
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Late last year, I was invited by Raoul Illyés, a SQL Server MVP from Denmark, to present a precon at the 2013 edition of SQLRally Nordic. I agreed and decided to skip the US PASS Summit this year and instead visit an area of Europe I've never seen before. Read More...
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An especially clever community member was kind enough to reverse-engineer the video stream for me, and came up with a direct link to the PASS TV video stream for my Query Tuning Mastery: The Art and Science of Manhandling Parallelism talk, delivered at Read More...
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For the second year in a row, I was asked to deliver a 500-level "Query Tuning Mastery" talk in room 6E of the Washington State Convention Center, for the PASS Summit. ( Here's some information about last year's talk, on workspace memory. ) And for the Read More...
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What a rush . Standing on the stage in an almost-full 1,000-person room, I (very) momentarily wondered what I'd been thinking when I submitted a 500-level talk for the biggest SQL Server conference in the world. But despite a rough start--my laptop crashed Read More...
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Autumn is creeping inevitably closer here in the US, and that means that speaking season is about to kick into high gear. Here's my current schedule for the remainder of the year: September 8, 17:00 GMT (online) - 24 Hours of PASS webcast: "Baseline Basics Read More...
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Thanks to everyone who took the time out of their conference experience to join Mike Wachal and me for yesterday's session on SQL Server performance tuning! For those who weren't there, we focused in on troubleshooting techniques, highlighting some of Read More...
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This has been a truly intense week at the PASS Summit, as evinced by the multitude of blog posts on the topic here on SQLblog and elsewhere. My breakout session on Tuesday was entitled "What Happened?" and those of you who attended may be asking that Read More...
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While preparing the material for my PASS Summit post-con on parallelism and parallel processing I realized that I could easily take a few chunks out, modify them a bit, and create some nice standalone webcasts. So I did just that, and delivered two sessions, Read More...
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Tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. EDT (4:00 p.m. GMT) I'll be doing a webcast for the PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter . Next-Level SQLCLR: Parallel Processing and Bulk Load The power of SQLCLR as a performance tool has been well-documented at this point; Read More...
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I am honored to have been selected for a second year in a row to present a full-day seminar at the PASS Summit. This year's seminar will be a "post-con", and will be delivered on Friday, November 12 . The title of the seminar is " A Day of Doing Many Read More...
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Last month a new PASS Virtual Chapter was introduced, one with a theme that is near and dear to much of what I like to work on: performance . Tomorrow, Tuesday August 3rd at noon Eastern time , the chapter will have its second meeting, and I will be doing Read More...
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Thank you to everyone who attended today's 24 Hours of PASS webcast on Dynamic Management Objects! I was shocked, awed, and somewhat scared when I saw the attendee number peak at over 800. I really appreciate your taking time out of your day to listen Read More...
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Fall is now in full swing, and after a relatively quiet several months my speaking schedule is about to jump into fairly-packed mode. Following is a list of where I'll be headed over the next couple of months: Next week I'm really excited to be teaching Read More...
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