How to Measure Your Career (SQLSaturday Israel Keynote)
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My name is Brent Ozar, and I help people make SQL Server go faster. That basically means I measure things for a living. If I’m going to make something faster, I have to start by knowing exactly how slow it is. When I first started working with SQL Server, I just measured it with Perfmon metrics. I spent so much time capturing metrics, interpreting what they meant, documenting them, setting up email alerts about them. Then I found out about DMVs – SQL Server’s dynamic management views. I started querying those, and wow, there was so much information available about internals, what…
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