Chad Miller

Chad Miller is a Senior Manager of Database Administration at Raymond James Financial. Chad has worked with Microsoft SQL Server since 1999 and has been automating administration tasks using Windows Powershell since 2007. Chad is the Project Coordinator/Developer of the Powershell-based Codeplex project SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX). Chad leads the Tampa Powershell User Group and is a frequent speaker at users groups, SQL Saturdays and Code Camps.

All authors

All authors

Blogs

Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop

By

I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...

How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift

By

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

If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade

By millardus

Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...

How Long is a Long I/O?

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...

T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server

By Imran2629

Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...

Visit the forum

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?

See possible answers