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I’m Coming to the #PassDataSummit in Seattle!

The lineup for the PASS Data Community Summit Seattle event was just released,and I'm proud to share that I'll be teaching my new all-day pre-conference workshop.
Dev-Prod Demon Hunters:
Finding the Real Cause of Production Slowness
Production is slow. Development is fast. The same query runs in both. Somewhere between the two, a performance demon is hiding—and this session is about hunting it down.

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We’re Discontinuing SQL ConstantCare and the Consultant Toolkit. Here’s Why.

About ten years ago, I sketched out an idea for a different kind of SQL Server monitoring tool: one that gathered data just once per day, and gave you a short email with a specific list of actionable tasks to make a difference in health and performance. Richie Rump did an amazing job of building…

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