New! Improved! v.3.3.0 Now Available on CodePlex ! Preamble SQLIOSim Parser shreds the results of SQLIOSim.log.xml in seconds, allowing easier & more accurate interpretation of the output of SQLIOSim. SQLIOSim is a tool written by CSS Engineer...

Yesterday I flew to Minneapolis to speak at PASS MN on disk partition alignment . I left for the airport immediately afterward to get home to Indianapolis in order to speak at Perpetual Technologies, Inc. ( PTI ) 2nd Annual Back to School with Microsoft...

Greetings, my current colleague & former MVP Lara Rubbelke ( blog | twitter ) was gracious enough to invite me to speak this week at PASS Minnesota aka PASS MN . I’ll be reprising my spiel on Disk Partition Alignment , the Best Kept Secret in SQL...

I’ve been aware of the buzz around xPerf for quite some time.  I flagged emails from Microsoft Premier Field Engineers Clint Huffman (author of PAL ) & Shane Creamer (author of Vital Signs ) who in internal DLs both cited the tool way back in...