Ken Henderson's WebLog
I was in Redmond last week on business and had a lot of fun this time around. The trip began and...
Date: 12/17/2007
In case you missed it in my last post, SQL Nexus, the SQL Server performance analysis platform built...
Date: 12/12/2007
Have you ever needed to find your most expensive queries and quickly grew weary of writing T-SQL...
Date: 12/12/2007
I had a great time on my brief stint in Denver for the PASS Summit. We had a good session and a good...
Date: 09/23/2007
I'm being interviewed on stage Friday afternoon from 2:30-3:45 by PASS president Kevin Kline...
Date: 09/18/2007
...and in honor of it, I'm going to be especially cryptic and give you a little word puzzle--an...
Date: 06/13/2007
This came up yesterday with one of our support engineers, so I thought I’d post a brief entry on it....
Date: 02/27/2007
Many have noted that there are some files missing from the CD accompanying my latest book, SQL...
Date: 02/10/2007
For those wondering why I use the terms 'khen' and 'foo' so often, here's an article on the...
Date: 12/15/2006
I've mentioned before that I had a new book coming out. It's finally available on Amazon. Again, I...
Date: 12/15/2006
My friends in Microsoft’s Product Support Services (PSS) group (aka SQL Server Support) are speaking...
Date: 11/13/2006
A conversation with a friend over email got me to thinking that this info might be useful to a few...
Date: 10/22/2006
I mentioned in my last post here that we have a new book coming out in December that focuses on...
Date: 10/20/2006
Dow Jones' Denis Gobo interviewed me recently about the new book some colleagues and I have got...
Date: 10/13/2006
For anyone who cares and is not already subscribed to my MSN Spaces blog, DNS issues with my...
Date: 08/31/2006
I'm starting a new movie review blog because I wanted to get familiar with Community Server and...
Date: 08/29/2006
My friend Bart Duncan is now blogging. Bart is one of the top SQL Server performance experts in the...
Date: 07/24/2006
I've decided to move all religion-related posts to their own blog over on Blogger. From now on,...
Date: 05/28/2006
https://www.calcsea.org/20051218-nytimes.asp The guy in this story is Ethan Berman, my boss when I...
Date: 05/04/2006
I used to use a little PC piano program called PianoMan written by Neil Rubenking of PC Magazine...
Date: 04/25/2006
I'm in Barcelona for the PASS Europe Conference. It's been a good conference once again, and we've...
Date: 02/25/2006
I'm speaking at the 2006 PASS European Conference in Barcelona. Drop by if you're attending. Hope to...
Date: 02/13/2006
The simplest rule-compliant solution to the employee-mentor challenge I recently posted is to change...
Date: 02/11/2006
I lamented the slow death of Borland in a recent post and was roundly assailed for it by the Borland...
Date: 02/09/2006
If you use a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition as your home media hub, you’ve probably...
Date: 02/09/2006
(and my wife has started to make comments...) I'm referring, of course, to Kent Tegels' Enjoy Every...
Date: 02/07/2006
I'm interested to hear what you consider the biggest potential security issues with SQL Server 2005....
Date: 02/07/2006
If, like me, you use a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition as your home media hub, you’ve...
Date: 02/06/2006
Today’s entry is another T-SQL puzzle. Steve Kass took the prize for the best solution to my last...
Date: 02/03/2006
According to the BOL, the recommended way of yielding to other workers in SQLCLR is to call...
Date: 02/02/2006
Saw some code like this the other day. See if you can tell what’s wrong with it: BOOL...
Date: 02/01/2006
Continuing the discussion from yesterday about memory-mapped files, how do they affect SQL Server?...
Date: 01/31/2006
A key Windows facility that’s been available since NT shipped is the support of memory-mapped files....
Date: 01/30/2006
There's been some churn over in the newsgroups re: my post yesterday about my concerns over...
Date: 01/24/2006
I guess the other shoe has finally dropped at Borland. Chief Scientist Danny Thorpe has left. He...
Date: 01/23/2006
For those of you who, like me, use Windows XP Media Center Edition to watch and record television...
Date: 12/01/2005
Early last month, I wanted to see what it would be like to blog everyday. I wanted to see how it...
Date: 11/18/2005
If you have deep coding and problem solving skills, live in the DFW area, love SQL Server, and would...
Date: 11/08/2005
Saw an article online the other day that compelled me to respond. The author was suggesting that SQL...
Date: 11/07/2005
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said, "If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the...
Date: 10/31/2005
I've always found the story of the early days of the PC industry to be extremely interesting. One...
Date: 10/28/2005
I've always felt that proficiency in the command language of an OS was an essential part of being...
Date: 10/28/2005
In yesterday's entry, I talked about self-replicating programs and how educational it can be to...
Date: 10/27/2005
This is an oldie, but a goodie. It's an article by Ken Thompson about, among other things, writing...
Date: 10/25/2005
For those interested in such things, there's a poem over on my personal blog having to do with...
Date: 10/24/2005
You may have noticed that the sample blocking detection script in KB articles 251004 and 271509 uses...
Date: 10/24/2005