Half-Way Through My Year as a Microsoft MVP
I meant to write this earlier, like in July, but I suppose it's better late than never. I'm halfway through...
2009-08-18
1,313 reads
Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
SQL Quiz #5
Another SQL Quiz started by His Evilness, Chris Shaw. Okay, Chris isn't evil; I just wanted to say "evilness" and these quizzes...
2009-08-17
2,546 reads
"Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave."
If you're not familiar with the reference, it comes from the movie Madagascar and the subsequent sequel and TV series...
2009-08-13
13,802 reads
Getting Security Vulnerability Information
Staying abreast of security vulnerability alerts can be a daunting task because there are so many each day. One source...
2009-08-12
1,162 reads
Security is a Zero-Sum Game...
but I don't mean with respect to privacy. But I do mean with respect to the time it takes securing...
2009-08-11
709 reads
Why Use Named Pipes?
The other day a colleague and I were shadowing a vendor who was installing their 3rd party application on a...
2009-08-10
24,486 reads
PASS News to Be Aware Of
2009 PASS Summit Trip Contest:
If you want an opportunity to win an all expenses paid trip to the PASS Summit,...
2009-08-07
805 reads
Active August posts
I've started a blog to write down and track my personal goals:
The Goal Keeping DBA
Since Active August is part of reaching my goal...
2009-08-04
1,098 reads
Active August posts
I've started a blog to write down and track my personal goals:
The Goal Keeping DBA
Since Active August is part of reaching my goal...
2009-08-01
1,127 reads
Active August - Are You Onboard?
Thanks to Mike Walsh for really getting this started. Active August is similar to Fit February where folks endeavor to...
2009-07-28
997 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...
Forums
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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Half of All Engineers
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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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