Browse by Tags

• Architecture
• Best Practices
• Disk I/O
• Fundamentals
• Office Productivity
• Outlook
• Performance
• Personal Productivity
• SQL Server
• SQLIOSim
• Tools
• xperf/ETW/WPA/WPT

SQLIOSim Parser by Jens Suessmeyer & Yours Truly

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 Bob Read More...

Posted 27 September 09 10:32 by Jimmy May | 4 Comments   
Filed under Disk I/O, News, Best Practices, Fundamentals, SQL Server, Tools, /faster, Architecture, SQLIOSim

xPerf: Once I Was Blind and Now I See

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 Read More...

Posted 08 September 09 11:10 by Jimmy May | 4 Comments   
Filed under Disk I/O, News, Performance, Fundamentals, /faster, xperf/ETW/WPA/WPT

Office Outlook 2007 CU/HotFix f/u: "Best version of Outlook ever" per MS VP Will Kennedy

This is a follow-up to last week's post in which I shared the fantastic perf enhancements in the latest-&-greatest Outlook 2007 Cumulative Update / HotFix. My post prompted a reply from Will Kennedy, Microsoft Corporate VP of Outlook & InfoPath. Read More...

Posted 16 March 09 09:40 by Jimmy May | 1 Comments   
Filed under Personal Productivity, Office Productivity, News, /faster, Outlook

Search

This Blog

• Home
• Email

Tags

• /faster
• Architecture
• Best Practices
• Career
• CPU
• Discipline
• Disk I/O
• Disk Partition Alignment
• DMOs/DMFs/DMVs
• Effectiveness
• Engineering Discipline
• Fundamentals
• Geekly
• Humor
• Hyper-V
• Indexes
• L'Chaim!
• Me
• Memory
• Miscellaneous
• News
• Office Productivity
• Outlook
• PerfMon
• Performance
• Personal Productivity
• Productivity
• Replication
• Scalability
• Speaking
• SQL CAT
• SQL Server
• SQLIOSim
• Table Partitioning
• Tools
• Training
• T-SQL
• VSTS
• Wait Stats
• xperf/ETW/WPA/WPT

Archives

• November 2009 (2)
• October 2009 (1)
• September 2009 (4)
• August 2009 (1)
• May 2009 (5)
• April 2009 (5)
• March 2009 (9)
• February 2009 (3)
• January 2009 (1)
• December 2008 (4)
• November 2008 (3)
• October 2008 (4)
• September 2008 (2)
• June 2008 (1)

Best of Blog

• SQL Server: 4-Step Performance Troubleshooting Methodology--Introduction
• Drum Roll, Please...The Debut of The SQL DMV All-Stars Dream Team!
• PerfMon Objects, Counters, Thresholds, & Utilities for SQL Server
• Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment) for SQL Server: Part 1: Slide Deck
• Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment) for SQL Server: Part 4: Essentials (Cheat Sheet)
• Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment): Make the Case: Save Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

Speaking

• ITT 2008 Commencement
• PASS 2008
• PASS 2009

Syndication

• RSS 2.0
• Atom 1.0