To all my readers I want to thank you! Over the last couple of years I've gotten lots of great feedback and comments on this blog. It has been read over 386,000 times as of 2/13/2011. I hope you'll join me on my new blog where I hope to put out more real numbers, cover more performance topics, and give...

While looking through past performance talks and presentations I came across this talk done at a BlackBoard.com conference and since it was already in the public domain I thought it worth sharing here. Keep in mind while the tuning principles are timeless there are some cool new techniques around performance...

SQL Server 2008 July CTP is out! - https://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver/content/content.aspx?contentid=5395 One of the performance gems in the July CTP is the addition of SQL Extended Events (aka SQL XEvent). This new eventing infrastructure enables developers to get a very detailed trace of what...