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Using Perfmon and Profiler

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

At the SQLBits conference in Great Britain last fall, Brent Ozar gave a presentation called “Using Perfmon and Profiler.”  He covered:

  • Why Windows Task Manager is nothing more than a check-engine light
  • His performance tuning lifecycle
  • Why you need to capture baselines (and how to do it)
  • Several sample tuning scenarios

You can watch this 52-minute presentation free courtesy of SQLBits:

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SQL Server Performance Tuning, Formula 1 Style

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

At the SQLBits conference in Great Britain last fall, Brent Ozar gave a presentation called “T-SQL Tuning with Colin Chapman, Enzo Ferrari, and The Stig.”  He covered:

  • 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

You can watch this 41-minute presentation free courtesy of SQLBits:

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If you liked this presentation, you can watch any of the SQLBits presentations at their web site, including:

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SQL Server in the Cloud Podcast Part 2

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

At the PASS Summit in Seattle, SQL Server in the cloud got a lot of buzz.  In this five-minute video, Brent Ozar gives you the answers you need when your developers and managers start asking questions.

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For more information about SQL Server in the cloud, check out these links:

Subscribing or Downloading the Podcast

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You can also download this video to watch it later:

Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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SQL Server in the Cloud Podcast

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

At the PASS Summit in Seattle, SQL Server in the cloud got a lot of buzz.  In this five-minute video, Brent Ozar explains the two main options for SQL in the cloud – real SQL Server, and the instant coffee version.

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For more information about SQL Server in the cloud, check out these links:

Subscribing or Downloading the Podcast

If you have an MP3 player or a portable video player and you want to download our videos automatically, you can subscribe to our podcast feeds here:

You can also download this video to watch it later:

Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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Tom LaRock on Monitoring

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) is a man of many hats: he’s a SQLServerPedia Editor, a PASS Board of Directors member, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and much more.Brent Ozar interviewed him at Quest’s headquarters about monitoring – what people should focus on monitoring, and what he wishes he would have known when he got started as a DBA.

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Subscribing or Downloading the Podcast

If you have an MP3 player or a portable video player and you want to download our videos automatically, you can subscribe to our podcast feeds here:

You can also download this video to watch it later:

Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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Tom LaRock on Blogging

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) is a man of many hats: he’s a SQLServerPedia Editor, a PASS Board of Directors member, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and much more.Brent Ozar  interviewed him at Quest’s headquarters about how he got started blogging and what he gets out of it.

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You can also download this video to watch it later:

Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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Guest Podcast: Policy Based Management

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) is our guest podcaster in today’s introduction to Policy Based Management, a new feature in SQL Server 2008.  It helps DBAs – especially accidental DBAs like sysadmins and SharePoint admins – find out if their environment is healthy.

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For more about Policy-Based Management, watch Tom’s blog for the next part of this video where he explains how to use PBM to evaluate several servers at once.

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    You can also download this video to watch it later:

    Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

    We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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    SQL Server 2008 R2 Utility Demo

    Monday, August 17th, 2009

    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2’s biggest new feature for production database administrators is the SQL Server Utility: a new way of managing databases as Data-Tier Applications (DACs).  Brent Ozar shows how it works in today’s 20-minute video podcast.

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    For more information about SQL Server 2008 R2’s Utility features, check out these posts by Brent Ozar:

    Subscribing or Downloading the Podcast

    If you have an MP3 player or a portable video player and you want to download our videos automatically, you can subscribe to our podcast feeds here:

    You can also download this video to watch it later:

    Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

    We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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    Tom LaRock on Meet the Experts

    Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

    Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) is a man of many hats: he’s a SQLServerPedia Editor, a PASS Board of Directors member, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and much more.  Christian Hasker interviewed him at Quest’s headquarters to find out more about the SQL Rockstar.

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    Subscribing or Downloading the Podcast

    If you have an MP3 player or a portable video player and you want to download our videos automatically, you can subscribe to our podcast feeds here:

    You can also download this video to watch it later:

    Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

    We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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    Guest Podcast: Auditing Your Database Server

    Thursday, August 6th, 2009

    Colin Stasiuk (Blog – Twitter) is our guest podcaster today, and he covers the options available to audit your database server.  He starts by explaining the different auditing solutions we’ve had in the past, and then dives into SQL Server 2008’s new auditing functionality.

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    For more about auditing topics, check out these wiki articles:

    Subscribing or Downloading the Podcast

    If you have an MP3 player or a portable video player and you want to download our videos automatically, you can subscribe to our podcast feeds here:

    You can also download this video to watch it later:

    Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

    We’d love to host your guest podcasts!  Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation.  We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site.  We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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