Anyone here remember “Pac Man Fever”? I’ve got that stuck in my head, only it’s “I got PASS Summit fever, it’s driving me crazy, I got PASS Summit fever, goin out of my mind…” Just thought I’d share. Today we have free books, comme d’habitude, a couple of giveaways, and an announcement! @bradmcgehee posted of […]
Author: Jen McCown
The 10 Minute Book Review: SQL Server 08 Query Performance Tuning Distilled
I’ve been meaning to review this book forever, because it’s my go-to book for all things performance tuning. Let’s just take a quick runthrough, starting with the basic info: SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled by Grant Fritchey (Twitter, blog) and Sajal Dam $34.64 on Amazon right now, $37.11 on B&N for members Published March 09 […]
Sing it with me: Free Stuff Friday!!
Another week gone, another week closer to SQL PASS! (Click here for #SQLPASS Twitter chatter.) In the meantime, let’s talk free stuff. We begin with the ghosts of free stuff past. The North Texas SQL Server User group meeting was last night, and in addition to the free pizza, free PSSDIag talk by @sqlserversleuth, and free networking, […]