From the 4th till the 7th of May 2016 one of the biggest SQL Server conference in the world will be in Liverpool promising four days of great SQL Server sessions and training. Just take a look at the agenda to be blown away by the amount of content. I am very proud to announce […]

You may have heard that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now available as a stand-alone installation package outside of the SQL Server setup (as a preview version). With the release of SQL Server 2016 RC0, Microsoft decided to cut the cords with SQL Server Management Studio as it has been removed from the SQL […]

As you probably know I am very fond of SQL Server Wait Statistics (shameless book link) and the options they provide for analyzing SQL Server performance. During SQL Server version releases new options became available to monitor and/or analyze Wait Statistics but one option for Wait Statistics analysis was still missing, the ability to monitor […]