I recently was re-exposed to the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) Tool available on CodePlex at a wonderful SQLskills class. I had played with the tool in the past, but at the time the server I had for setting things up and automating processes was Windows 2000, so I forgot
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Argenis Fernandez (blog | @DBArgenis). Argenis is asking if we specialize or not, why we do (or don’t) specialize, and why we feel that’s a good thing. I started out my career as a Jack of All Trades mainly because my