Adam Machanic
Adam Machanic is a Boston-based independent database consultant, writer, and speaker. He has been involved in dozens of SQL Server implementations for both high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and has optimized data access layer performance for several data-intensive applications. Adam has written for numerous web sites and magazines, including SQLblog, Simple Talk, Search SQL Server, SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and VSJ. He has also contributed to several books on SQL Server, including "SQL Server 2008 Internals" (Microsoft Press, 2009) and "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development" (Apress, 2007). Adam regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server, Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), and a former member of the INETA North American Speakers Bureau.
Are your big queries using every available clock tick, or are they lagging behind? And if your queries are already going parallel, can they be rewritten for even greater speed? In this session you will learn how to take full advantage of parallelism.
Large, complex queries need memory in which to work--workspace memory--and understanding the how's, when's, and why's of this memory can help you create queries that run in seconds rather than minutes.
Blog posts
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Today at SQL Saturday #220 in Atlanta I presented a new brand new session , "SQL Server Query Plan Analysis: The 5 Culprits That Cause 95% of Your Performance Headaches." This session is designed to help people quickly analyze query plans and find likely culprits without being query tuning experts; ...
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Red Gate rocks. If you didn’t know that already, you know it now. The latest evidence to support this claim is the publication of the schedule for US SQL in the City events. They are: 9 Oct – Pasadena 11 Oct – Atlanta 14 Oct – Charlotte Registration for these events opens 24 May. :{>...(read ...
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When : October 15, 2013 8:45 am - 4:45 pm Charlotte, NC Where : Wake Forest University Charlotte Center 200 North College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 What : Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) automates your BI patterns and eliminates the manual repetition that consumes most of your time. ...
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I don’t know why but for some reason I have never liked using sp_spaceused. It probably started a long time ago when the results were often inaccurate due to the meta data being out of date. I am pretty sure that was fixed somewhere along the line but the system stored procedure had some other ...
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Matt Masson and I are co-presenting Developing Extensions for SSIS 22 May 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT. If you’ve never heard Matt present, you are in for a treat. Matt is knowledgeable (he helped build Integration Services 2012!) and entertaining. This is going to be a good one, folks! Abstract Join Matt ...
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