New HP Envy 15 Laptop
After quite a bit of research, I pulled the trigger on a new HP Envy 15 system last Saturday. This...
2009-11-12
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Glenn Berry
Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7
One feature of Windows 7 that you may not have heard of is Windows XP Mode on Windows Virtual PC....
2009-11-12
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is an updated version of my diagnostic information queries for SQL Server 2005. You can get the SQL Server...
2009-11-09
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2009-11-09
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SQL Server Wait Type Repository
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a good post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about an upcoming web page...
2009-11-08
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Worldwide Operating System Market Share for October 2009
Ars Technica has a good post up showing that Windows 7, (which has been out for two weeks) has already...
2009-11-07
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New Pricing and Editions For SQL Server 2008 R2
Mary-Jo Foley recently posted about some announcements about SQL Server 2008 R2 out of the PASS Summit. There will be...
2009-11-05
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Running on “Big Iron”
During the opening keynote on Tuesday at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia showed a demonstration of a...
2009-11-05
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Day 1 At SQL PASS in Seattle
Today was my big, somewhat stressful day at the PASS summit in Seattle. I gave two, 75-minute Community session presentations,...
2009-11-04
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the script that I used in my Dr. DMV presentation this afternoon at PASS. It is a set...
2009-11-04
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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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