Eric Humphrey (Blog – @LotsaHelp) asked if I’d help out the Northwest Arkansas PASS chapter tomorrow and present remotely. Because I know that you, reader, like to watch, here’s the coordinates:
- Start Time: Weds Jan 13th 11:45 AM Central (17:45 GMT)
- Attendee URL
- Meeting ID: ZRW878
- Attendee Entry Code: X/~x]ZNH3
- Audio: will be through your computer speakers only, not the phone. Plug in those headphones, turn off the Lady Gaga, and get your learn on.
Topic: SQL Server Performance Tuning for Race Car Drivers
Times are tough even for the best drivers: Helio Castroneves is dancing for money and Danica Patrick is doing ads for what appears to be an adult services company. Maybe it’s time to switch careers, and I have just the thing. Use your hard-earned knowledge of high speeds, million-dollar hardware and surviving disastrous crashes to become a SQL Server performance tuner!
In this session, I will show you:
- Why Colin Chapman would check for indexes before adding new ones
- The importance of well-tested safety gear to performance tuning
- Why not monitoring your servers is like overdriving your headlights
- Just like races are lost in the pits, uptime records are lost during maintenance windows
See you there!
Great! Thanks for publishing the invite.
By the way, I wonder why does Lady Gaga speaks Swedish in the video you posted?!
Ha! Being an ignorant American, I assumed it was French. She seemed like the kind of person who’d use French, but shows what I know.
Great presentation! Thanks for the ideas!
By the way, that folder of your scripts you mentioned… how much for it?…
Thanks! Sadly, I wrote most of those while employed at companies with rules about intellectual property, so I’m not sure if *I’M* even allowed to have them.
How about a month of free coffee in return?
Awesome presentation yesterday! The points you made in using the sys tables wherever possible to spot issues was very cool. Knowing this previously would have saved me a lot of logging in the past….