Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
2009-08-04
1,450 reads
Articles
Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
2009-08-04
485 reads
Looking for Good (and Bad) SQL Server Blogs
I was asked to do an hour presentation during the 24 Hours of PASS, which takes place on Sept 2,...
2009-08-04
1,014 reads
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide
Because Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services query and processing performance tuning is a fairly broad subject, this white paper organizes performance tuning techniques into the following three segments.
2009-08-04
2,866 reads
Changing Table Schema – what goes behind the scenes – Part I
What happens behind the scenes when you alter a table schema? New author Alok Dwivedi dives deep into SQL Server to show us how things are affected.
2009-08-03
7,971 reads
12 Essential Steps After Installing SQL Server
Rolling out SQL Servers is a key task for DBAs, this articles provides 12 essential post-installation steps.
2009-08-03
7,255 reads
Be a Craftsman
Is software engineering dead? Some well respected software developers have stated that, and one says we should be craftsman, not engineers.
2009-08-03
726 reads
Be a Craftsman
Is software engineering dead? Some well respected software developers have stated that, and one says we should be craftsman, not engineers.
2009-08-03
792 reads
Be a Craftsman
Is software engineering dead? Some well respected software developers have stated that, and one says we should be craftsman, not engineers.
2009-08-03
788 reads
Embedding Bing Maps in a Web Page
I was doing some maintenance on the SQLSaturday web site recently and one request kinda low on the list was...
2009-08-03
3,085 reads
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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