In my “Theme Phrase 2012” post last week I said my theme phrase for 2012 (and the rest of 2011) was “Get Your Geek On”. I’m going to stay with that theme and advertise a new page on the BenchmarkITConsulting.com website: Speaking Schedule to help me “Get My Speak On” Part of getting “my geek [...]
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Speaking Schedule
2011 Dec 14th 2011 – SWFSSUGS – South West Florida SQL User Group Dec 28th 2011 – MADPASS – The Madison SQL Server Users Group 2012 Mar 22nd – Curacao SQL Server User Group Mar 28th – Evansville SQL Server User Group Mar 29th – EDMPASS / EDMUG User Groups May 26th – OKPASS Okanagan [...]
SQL 2012 is Retro – What’s Old is New Again
WHICH IS MORE SCARY? OR Don’t worry this is NOT going to be a post about Microsoft Access but I did have a flashback when I was playing around with CTP3 of SQL Server 2012 (yeah that’s right… I called it 2012. Denali is SO last month ) So what did I find that would [...]
Mo-Money No-Problems
“MOvember” is fast approaching and I’ve joined up with my Movember team for 2011. Movember is the month formerly known as November, where men and women across the globe join together raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues. Men grow a Mo (moustache) for 30 days to become walking, talking billboards, for our men’s [...]
You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks – Extended Events
Well this “old dog” has been putting off REALLY getting my hands dirty with Extended Events for a while now. I’ve become quite “comfortable” in my toolset for monitoring/troubleshooting with things like: Performance Counters DMVs SQL Profiler SQLDiag / SQL Nexus Event Notifications The benefits and efficiencies of Extended Events are just too good to [...]
