Last week I had the pleasure to present on the topic of Dynamic Management Objects at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit in Charlotte, NC. I also had the opportunity to learn from some of the brightest and most-talented professionals in the SQL Server community. I don’t recall if this question was posed(…)
Thank you Ola Hallengren I, like so many of my peers, am a big fan of Ola Hallengren. If there was the Nobel Prize for SQL he would have undoubtedly received the award by now. For those of you unfamiliar with Sir Hallengren I invite you to visit his little corner of the Internet and(…)
A couple years ago inspiration struck when I applied the concept of the periodic table of elements to the Microsoft SQL Server’s Dynamic Management Objects, which Louis Davidson and I wrote about in our 2010 bo0k: Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Objects. Times change, the SQL Server product changes (well, not those shortcomings(…)