Author: Jen McCown

(You can find part 1 here.)  I’m nothing, really.  When we’re talking about databases, technology – come to think of it, any area of anything, ever – I’m nothing special. There are tons of people who know tons more than I do.  I heard this same exact song from Sean for the last decade plus, […]

When I was a kid, anyone who could Do Something was like a god, something incomprehensible and untouchable.  Actors, musicians, writers and performers, athletes, famous historical and political figures…they were some other kind of being, destined for fame and (/or) greatness.  I always wondered about the path one takes to get there: to success, to […]

Here is the video to accompany the article I wrote for SQLServerPedia.com, “The Server-side Trace: What, Why, and How”… Any time you open SQL Server Profiler and run a trace, you’re running a client-side trace. Even if you open SQL Profiler on the server and run it there, it’s still client-side. To run a server-side […]