Paul Randal is the CEO of SQLskills.com, which he runs with his wife Kimberly L. Tripp. Both Paul and Kimberly are very widely known and respected experts in the SQL Server world, and both are long-time SQL Server MVPs. Click here for a full bio.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) explains how the SQLskills Wait Types Library uses anonymous data from SentryOne to indicate whether a wait type is commonly experienced.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) adds another chapter to his thorough series on knee-jerk wait statistics, focusing on the often-misunderstood PAGELATCH_XX waits.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) explains how to tell when CXPACKET waits are actually a problem (because, usually, they are just an indication of parallelism).
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills provides some thorough and helpful tips on reducing or eliminating the impact of index fragmentation in SQL Server.
Continuing his knee-jerk series, this time Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills talks about SSDs, and some of the false impressions people get about them.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal talks about Page Life Expectancy – what it is, why fixed thresholds are meaningless, when it matters, and what you can do about it – in this latest installment of his "knee-jerk troubleshooting" series.
Continuing his series on knee-jerk reactions to wait statistics, Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills adds another chapter, this time focusing on PAGEIOLATCH_SH.
