Performance Benefits of Adding RAM to a Laptop
I have a pretty nice Dell Latitude E6420 that I am using as a loaner laptop while I wait for...
2011-06-30
1,829 reads
Glenn Berry
CPU-Z 1.58 Released
Version 1.58 of the very useful utility CPU-Z was released on June 24, 2011. Originally (and still) popular for bragging...
2011-06-27
774 reads
A Tale of Two Sandy Bridge Laptops
I recently bought a new teaching and presentation laptop, which is a Toshiba Portege R835-P55X, which I found at the...
2011-06-21
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Presenting Two Sessions at PASS Summit 2011
I found out earlier this week that I was fortunate enough to have my half day session on “Scaling SQL...
2011-06-19
916 reads
Three New TPC-E Submissions
I just noticed three very recent new TPC-E Benchmark Submissions that I thought were quite interesting. As I have written...
2011-06-15
940 reads
Moving On To New Challenges
After nearly five and half years, I left NewsGator Technologies for a new position as a Database Architect at Avalara,...
2011-06-13
843 reads
June 2011 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Since it is June, I thought it was time to update my SQL Server 2008 (and 2008 R2) Diagnostic Information...
2011-06-02
683 reads
PASS Announces Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for PASS 2011 Summit
Today, PASS announced the Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, which will run from October...
2011-06-01
1,105 reads
Presentation Deck For Hardware 201 at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19, 2011
I got the chance to give an updated version of Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance...
2011-05-20
787 reads
Presenting at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19
I will be giving the main presentation at this month’s meeting of the Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May...
2011-05-17
591 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
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,...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
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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