Ken Henderson's WebLog
Last Week
I was in Redmond last week on business and had a lot of fun this time around. The trip began and...
Date: 12/17/2007
SQL Nexus is out!
In case you missed it in my last post, SQL Nexus, the SQL Server performance analysis platform built...
Date: 12/12/2007
A SQL Profiler trace Swiss Army Knife
Have you ever needed to find your most expensive queries and quickly grew weary of writing T-SQL...
Date: 12/12/2007
Random thoughts on my trip to the conference
I had a great time on my brief stint in Denver for the PASS Summit. We had a good session and a good...
Date: 09/23/2007
I'll be at the PASS Summit in Denver
I'm being interviewed on stage Friday afternoon from 2:30-3:45 by PASS president Kevin Kline...
Date: 09/18/2007
Today is a great day
...and in honor of it, I'm going to be especially cryptic and give you a little word puzzle--an...
Date: 06/13/2007
Does rebuilding a clustered index rebuild nonclustered indexes?
This came up yesterday with one of our support engineers, so I thought I’d post a brief entry on it....
Date: 02/27/2007
Update to the latest book's CD
Many have noted that there are some files missing from the CD accompanying my latest book, SQL...
Date: 02/10/2007
Origins of khen and foo
For those wondering why I use the terms 'khen' and 'foo' so often, here's an article on the...
Date: 12/15/2006
The new book is out
I've mentioned before that I had a new book coming out. It's finally available on Amazon. Again, I...
Date: 12/15/2006
SQL Server Support is at the PASS Summit again this year
My friends in Microsoft’s Product Support Services (PSS) group (aka SQL Server Support) are speaking...
Date: 11/13/2006
Normalizing query text
A conversation with a friend over email got me to thinking that this info might be useful to a few...
Date: 10/22/2006
Book sample chapter available for download
I mentioned in my last post here that we have a new book coming out in December that focuses on...
Date: 10/20/2006
New book coming out
Dow Jones' Denis Gobo interviewed me recently about the new book some colleagues and I have got...
Date: 10/13/2006
Μοviεβrainia is back online
For anyone who cares and is not already subscribed to my MSN Spaces blog, DNS issues with my...
Date: 08/31/2006
New movie review blog
I'm starting a new movie review blog because I wanted to get familiar with Community Server and...
Date: 08/29/2006
New blog
My friend Bart Duncan is now blogging. Bart is one of the top SQL Server performance experts in the...
Date: 07/24/2006
The rest is silence
I've decided to move all religion-related posts to their own blog over on Blogger. From now on,...
Date: 05/28/2006
Nice article for those concerned about runaway CEO compensation
https://www.calcsea.org/20051218-nytimes.asp The guy in this story is Ethan Berman, my boss when I...
Date: 05/04/2006
Looking for PC QWERTY keyboard piano software
I used to use a little PC piano program called PianoMan written by Neil Rubenking of PC Magazine...
Date: 04/25/2006
Blogging from Barcelona
I'm in Barcelona for the PASS Europe Conference. It's been a good conference once again, and we've...
Date: 02/25/2006
PASS Barcelona
I'm speaking at the 2006 PASS European Conference in Barcelona. Drop by if you're attending. Hope to...
Date: 02/13/2006
Answer to the most recent T-SQL challenge
The simplest rule-compliant solution to the employee-mentor challenge I recently posted is to change...
Date: 02/11/2006
A Final Note on Borland
I lamented the slow death of Borland in a recent post and was roundly assailed for it by the Borland...
Date: 02/09/2006
Review: Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition
If you use a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition as your home media hub, you’ve probably...
Date: 02/09/2006
I'm enjoying every sandwich
(and my wife has started to make comments...) I'm referring, of course, to Kent Tegels' Enjoy Every...
Date: 02/07/2006
Poll: What are your biggest security concerns for SQL Server 2005?
I'm interested to hear what you consider the biggest potential security issues with SQL Server 2005....
Date: 02/07/2006
Review: Napster for MCE
If, like me, you use a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition as your home media hub, you’ve...
Date: 02/06/2006
TSQL coding challenge
Today’s entry is another T-SQL puzzle. Steve Kass took the prize for the best solution to my last...
Date: 02/03/2006
Sleeping vs. Yielding
According to the BOL, the recommended way of yielding to other workers in SQLCLR is to call...
Date: 02/02/2006
Subtle bugs
Saw some code like this the other day. See if you can tell what’s wrong with it: BOOL...
Date: 02/01/2006
Memory-mapped files and SQL Server
Continuing the discussion from yesterday about memory-mapped files, how do they affect SQL Server?...
Date: 01/31/2006
Memory-mapped files and how they work
A key Windows facility that’s been available since NT shipped is the support of memory-mapped files....
Date: 01/30/2006
More on Borland, Danny Thorpe, etc.
There's been some churn over in the newsgroups re: my post yesterday about my concerns over...
Date: 01/24/2006
Goodbye, My Friend
I guess the other shoe has finally dropped at Borland. Chief Scientist Danny Thorpe has left. He...
Date: 01/23/2006
Cable cards coming soon to Media Center
For those of you who, like me, use Windows XP Media Center Edition to watch and record television...
Date: 12/01/2005
My little experiment
Early last month, I wanted to see what it would be like to blog everyday. I wanted to see how it...
Date: 11/18/2005
We're hiring!
If you have deep coding and problem solving skills, live in the DFW area, love SQL Server, and would...
Date: 11/08/2005
Max worker threads
Saw an article online the other day that compelled me to respond. The author was suggesting that SQL...
Date: 11/07/2005
Know your enemy
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said, "If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the...
Date: 10/31/2005
A trip down memory lane
I've always found the story of the early days of the PC industry to be extremely interesting. One...
Date: 10/28/2005
Tee time
I've always felt that proficiency in the command language of an OS was an essential part of being...
Date: 10/28/2005
More about self-reproducing T-SQL
In yesterday's entry, I talked about self-replicating programs and how educational it can be to...
Date: 10/27/2005
T-SQL coding challenge
This is an oldie, but a goodie. It's an article by Ken Thompson about, among other things, writing...
Date: 10/25/2005
Poem over on my personal blog
For those interested in such things, there's a poem over on my personal blog having to do with...
Date: 10/24/2005
Sometimes it's better just to waitfor
You may have noticed that the sample blocking detection script in KB articles 251004 and 271509 uses...
Date: 10/24/2005