Richard Douglas

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Richard Douglas is the Principal Solutions Engineer for SentryOne where he specialises in providing Microsoft Data Platform monitoring solutions and system health checks to organisations across the globe. Richard was the founder of the Maidenhead SQL Server User Group and has spoken at several PASS events including the PASS Summit, SQL Rally's and SQL Saturdays. Previously Richard had also regularly presented webinars for Quest/Dell Software and PASS Virtual Chapters on various SQL Server related topics and was a technical reviewer on two SQL Server 2012 books. Richard can be contacted via Twitter @SQLRich or on his blog http://SQL.RichardDouglas.co.uk

Sessions

The Day After Tomorrow; Why You Need to Baseline
Ensuring top performance is never easy. To maintain performance you need to make sure you’re monitoring the right things. How do you know if the figures you’re seeing are good or bad? Baseline comparisons can help.
The Big Backup Theory
In this session, you'll gain invaluable guidance for optimizing your backup strategies. Using trace flags the session will cover how SQL Server manages its own backup options and how you can tune them to meet your SLAs.
Wait watchers-Gain Performance Increases Fast!
In this session you'll learn all about SQL Server wait statistics. These are statistics the database engine stores about the resources it is waiting on. Armed with this information you as a SQL Server professional can make better informed decisions.
Kicking bad code to the touchline
In this demo-packed session, you’ll learn practical tips and tricks for SQL code tuning. Using both free and paid tools from SQL Sentry, you’ll learn tips and tricks you can immediately apply to your SQL code, not to mention the free tools!
Understanding the Transaction Log
In this session you will learn to appreciate how the transaction log works and how you can improve the performance of your applications by making the right architectural choices.
Alerting; Beyond the Basics
We'll look at events that you should be monitoring, how you can use various services & IoT enabled devices to alert you in ways that were never possible. You'll leave with a new outlook of how teams can be notified to fix problems faster than ever.
Investigate TempDB like Sherlock Holmes
Learn how to investigate the mysterious case of SQL Server performance problems in TempDB.
Improving SQL Server Performance with Indexing
Indexing presents daunting challenges for even the most seasoned professionals, it offers countless options to choose from. With a little help you’ll see how to simplify indexing in your environment & improve the overall performance of your apps