Search Results for: performance

Azure SQL Database Live Migrations

Unfortunately, with Azure SQL Database you are not able to take an existing SQL Server Backup and restore it on an Azure SQL Database server.  We are talking about Microsoft’s database as a service (DaaS)  offering, not Azure VMs also … Continue reading

Automatic Seeding Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2016

There are a lot of new features in SQL Server 2016. Availability Groups by itself got a lot of new features.  Being that I am the founder of the High Availability and Disaster Recovery Virtual Chapter, I plan on blogging … Continue reading

My SQL Saturday Houston Story..

This past weekend I had the privilege of speaking at SQL Saturday Houston. I enjoyed catching up with some friends while I also took the time to make some new ones as well. The Talks This year I gave two different … Continue reading

Community

Here is a list of several different ways I pay it forward within the SQL Server Community from Austin, Texas. Contact me if you would like me to speak at your event I was a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. (2016 … Continue reading

3 Reasons to Attend SQL Saturday Austin on Jan 30th

The Austin SQL Server User Group will host its third SQL Saturday on Saturday, January 30th. SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Admittance to this event is free ($15 … Continue reading

My PASS 2015 Vote

Today I got my annual email from PASS HQ to vote for the Board of Director elections.  I always like to vote for who I think can add value to my favorite IT organization. Today, I am happy and proud … Continue reading

Developers Make Your SQL Server Queries Go Faster!

Being that today is my birthday I thought I would share a nice gift to everyone who follows my blog. Below is a free link to a recorded video of one of my latest presentations that goes over multiple SQL … Continue reading

PowerPivot For DBAs

The following presentation goes over how you can automate the data collection for benchmarking wait statistics, disk latency, performance counters and do analytics with PowerPivot. LINKS Dallas BI Edition SQL Saturday (Free conference just on PowerBI and other BI features) … Continue reading

Extended Event Security Permissions

Recently, I gave my first presentation of the year at Austin .NET User Group on Writing Faster Queries and I got a great question about Extended Events. The question was, “What security permissions are required for creating and modifying Extended … Continue reading

Make SQL Server Queries Run Faster

Have you ever developed slowly running queries and wondered how to tune your SQL Server queries? In this session you will learn some T-SQL performance tuning tips from a DBA who has a developer background. We will go over how … Continue reading