Josef Richberg
A SQL practitioner for over 17 years specializing in performance & tuning. I currently work for Harpercollins Publishers designing, enhancing, and improving, the sql experience for many of the data warehouse applications. I have been heavily involved in designing and implementing SSIS packages. I am the RedGate '2009 Exceptional DBA' awards winner.

Read more about Josef on his blog at http://josef-richberg.squarespace.com/
My Talks:
SQL Server - Non-clustered Index internals and structure
Length: 75 minutes
Tags: IT Professional | DBA | Database | SQL | SQL Server | MSSQL | Indexing

Indexes are necessary for efficient access to data within tables, but a fine balance must be struck. Too many indexes will increase your data needs and slow down data modifications, too few and you will not be able to get your data out of the tables effectively. With that said, this presentation will go into detailed analysis of non-clustered index structures, explain how SQL Server uses them, and how to determine if your indexes are designed properly and being used effectively.

Portable Document Format (.pdf) Index Statistics.pdf


SSIS Workload Thread Balancing
Length: 75 minutes
Tags: IT Professional | DBA | Database | SQL | SQL Server | SSIS | MSSQL

SSIS is a powerful tool that has many inherent features, one of which is parallel execution. With little coaxing you can run dozens of threads wihthin a single package and also realize very poor performance. In this session the attendees will learn how parallelism works within SSIS, the concept of 'Silos', advanced techniques to improve parallel flat file ingestion, and an advanced parallel framework which prevents 'Silos' and improves overall parallel efficiency.

Portable Document Format (.pdf) SSIS WorkLoad Thread Balancing PASS.pdf