The PASS Performance Virtual Chapter has a tradition of yearly “Palooza events”, in which there are a few back-to-back online performance...

Thanks to everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation. It was a lot of fun taking part...

This past Wednesday, I delivered my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to the DBA Virtual Chapter. The session covers many...

It’s been a great a busy week. On Wednesday, I presented my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” at SQLRally in Copenhagen....

Next week, I’m going to visit London and Copenhagen for SQLBits and SQLRally Nordic. It’s going to be intense and fun. SQLRally On...

Last week, Boris Hristov (b|t), the organizer of #SQLHangout, invited William Durkin (b|t) and me to a SQL Hangout about transitioning...

I have been working with SQL Server for the past 17 years, and in the past few years I have been also very involved in the SQL Server...

I was invited to take part in a new initiative conceived by Boris Hristov (Blog|Twitter). Boris wants to start using the Google Hangouts...