SQL Saturday returns to the Boston area this April, with what is certain to be an exceptional speaker and session lineup. (The actual schedule will be posted soon, but in the meantime you can see the submitted sessions.) The free event ($10 if you'd like to eat lunch) will take place on Saturday, April 6. Highly recommended for anyone in the area ...

Autumn is creeping inevitably closer here in the US, and that means that speaking season is about to kick into high gear. Here's my current schedule for the remainder of the year:   September 8, 17:00 GMT (online) - 24 Hours of PASS webcast: ''Baseline Basics or: Who Broke the Database?''In this session, excerpted from my PASS Summit ...

Thanks to everyone who took the time out of their conference experience to join Mike Wachal and me for yesterday's session on SQL Server performance tuning! For those who weren't there, we focused in on troubleshooting techniques, highlighting some of the key DMVs and new Extended Events features that will help with proactive diagnosis of ...