It is with great honour that I can announce I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday in Manchester on the 25th July, I look forward to seeing you there.

Join me at SQLSaturday Cambridge on September 12th. I look forward to seeing you there !

In this post I wanted to cover transaction log write performance in detail, some of the nuances of storage area networks that can work against you and how lowering write log latency can be more subtle than […]

Due to commitments to his startup venture Thomas Kejser has given me full access to his presentation material and asked me to present his Super Scaling SQL Server course going forwards. My intention would be […]

Most CPUs as we know them are based on the “Von Neumann architecture”: The Von Neumann architecture is based around the concept of the fetch execute cycle, instructions and data are fetched from memory, a […]

I’m delighted to announce that I have had my SQL Server Batch Engine and CPU Architectures deep dive session selected for SQL Saturday #413. Hopefully I will be able to add some new material to […]