While preparing the material for my PASS Summit post-con on parallelism and parallel processing I realized that I could easily take a few chunks out, modify them a bit, and create some nice standalone webcasts. So I did just that, and delivered two sessions, one for the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter and another for the PASS Application ...

Tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. EDT (4:00 p.m. GMT) I'll be doing a webcast for the PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter.Next-Level SQLCLR: Parallel Processing and Bulk LoadThe power of SQLCLR as a performance tool has been well-documented at this point; certain queries, when re-written the right way using SQLCLR components, can run an order of ...

I am honored to have been selected for a second year in a row to present a full-day seminar at the PASS Summit. This year's seminar will be a ''post-con'', and will be delivered on Friday, November 12. The title of the seminar is ''A Day of Doing Many Things at Once: Multitasking, Parallelism, and Process Distribution,'' and the focus is on ...

Last month a new PASS Virtual Chapter was introduced, one with a theme that is near and dear to much of what I like to work on: performance. Tomorrow, Tuesday August 3rd at noon Eastern time, the chapter will have its second meeting, and I will be doing the presentation. The topic is Parallelism and Performance. Here's the abstract:In ...