SQLSoldier.com is the blog for Robert L Davis. He is a SQL Server Certified Master, MVP, and has spent 17+ years honing his skills in security, performance tuning, SQL development, high availability, and disaster recovery. He served as PM for the SQL Server Certified Master Program at Microsoft Learning, and in various roles at Microsoft specializing in SQL Server administration, development, and architecture.
He currently works as a Database Engineer at BlueMountain Capital Management where he spends a vast majority of his time tuning massively parallel queries. Robert feeds his passion for security by acting as co-leader of the PASS Security Virtual Chapter.
My Recent Posts
5 Tips for Friday: Waits and Queues
This Friday I want to talk about some best practices for troubleshooting queries using waits and queues. Waits and queues are excellent tools for trying to figure out why a query is running slower than you think it should be running. When a query has to wait for some reason, ...
