I'm thrilled to announce a three-part remote education event in conjunction with the Iowa SQL Server community! The...
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Dec 8 Webinar with Pavilion – Boost SQL Server on VMware Performance 400% with 2-Step Tuning
Join us on December 8th at 10am Pacific time for an exciting new webinar! Performance tuning advanced SQL Server...
Webinar Wednesday with Pavilion – SQL Server Performance
I'm thrilled to announce a new webinar with Pavilion Data for this Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at 10:00am Pacific...
PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Precon Announcement
I'm thrilled to announce my preconference training session ahead of this year's virtual PASS Data Community Summit,...
SQL Server Session at VMworld 2021
I'm thrilled to be presenting with Deji Akomolafe a new session at this year's VMworld 2021 conference called...
Scale your SQL Server data files without an outage
Do you have quite large MDF files on your database? By large, I mean hundreds of gigabytes (or larger). Have you...
AI is going to be everywhere and in everything
I recently was a part of GestaltIT's AI Field Day and have been thinking heavily about artificial intelligence (and by...
Composable Infrastructure Will Reinvent the Data Center
With the rise of Kubernetes and other completely cloud-based deployments, on-premises data centers seem to be on the...
Top 10 Must-Ask Questions Before Going to the Cloud
After architecting and migrating some of the world’s largest data platforms, David Klee, database and infrastructure...
The Secret to Saving on Cloud Costs
Have you ever cringed when you received your monthly cloud bill? Does it feel like you’re overpaying for your cloud...
PASS Summit 2020 Precon Scripts & Links
An attendee at my PASS Summit precon on virtualized SQL Server performance tuning on Monday asked a great question....
Setup Perfmon for 24×7 Collection
Recording ongoing performance information is vital to have a running history of the system state in case issues arise....