The PFE Chronicles
Some advice and experience for you from SQL Server PFEs
Incremental statistics ... How to Update Statistics on 100TB Database
I really like the idea of Incremental Statistics and what it can offer customers, specifically...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 04/03/2016
SSMS March 2016 Now Doesn’t Fail to Install
Last week I wrote here about how the March 2016 SSMS installation fails if the visual studio 2010...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 04/03/2016
SSMS March 2016 Fails to Install
It’s super frustrating when software fails to install, it’s especially frustrating when the log file...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 03/27/2016
Restoring the master database, but not in this way!
When working on issues, we do a whole series of investigation steps, these tend to lead to other...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 03/21/2016
AlwaysOn Secondary with Out-Of-Memory Errors…
Environment Three node Availability Group set, with two asynchronous secondaries. Windows Server...
Author: Dr. David Thulborn Date: 03/16/2016
Performance Monitor counter search
How often do you head to Performance Monitor to only spend what seems like an age finding the...
Author: Jonathan Allen msft Date: 03/15/2016
SQL 2012 Latest Update Confusion
The latest release of SQL 2012 updates has risen a little bit of confusion, especially around why...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 02/18/2016
SQL 2016 Load Balanced Readable Secondary Replicas
Continuing the theme of new features in SQL 2016, today I’ll introduce read workload load balancing...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 02/11/2016
See you at SQL Bits!
Hopefully a lot of readers will have heard of the SQLBits conference that runs every year in the UK,...
Author: Jonathan Allen msft Date: 02/09/2016
IT Innovation Series - free tech events in the UK
Have you seen the free training from MSDN in February, March, April and May across the UK? Check out...
Author: Jonathan Allen msft Date: 01/28/2016
SQL Server 2016 DTC Support In Availability Groups
In this post I’ll discuss the new support for Distributed Transactions in SQL Server 2016, how this...
Author: Chris Lound Date: 01/25/2016
SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Updates
SQL Server 2012 has just had 2 new CUs released, if you are still running on SQL Server 2012 SP2...
Author: Jonathan Allen msft Date: 01/21/2016
Hello world!
Welcome to the PFE Chronicals, a blog composed of thoughts and advice from SQL Server Premier Field...
Author: Jonathan Allen msft Date: 12/07/2015