I was in Redmond last week on business and had a lot of fun this time around. The trip began and ended with a visit to Key Arena in downtown Seattle. Monday night it was the Van Halen concert. I’d already seen Van Halen in Kansas City back in October...

In case you missed it in my last post, SQL Nexus , the SQL Server performance analysis platform built by Bart and me, has been released via CodePlex . Here's a post post where I talked about how Nexus works. And here's the link to its page on the CodePlex...

Have you ever needed to find your most expensive queries and quickly grew weary of writing T-SQL against trace tables to try to ferret them out? Have you ever had to wade through gigabytes of trace data just to find one ill-behaving query? Have you ever...