May 2010 S3OLV Meeting Recap
On the evening of May 13th, S3OLV held its monthly meeting. We had some really good discussion, and got to...
2010-05-14
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Jason Brimhall
Exceptional DBA
It is once again that time of year. It is time to nominate the DBA in your life for the...
2010-05-11
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May UG Meeting
This is just a quick note to remind any interested parties that the May S3OLV meeting will be held this...
2010-05-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #006: A Blobbing We Will Go
Once again it looks like I was early for the T-SQL Tuesday event. Last month I submitted my entry on...
2010-05-11
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SQL 2005 TableSpace
In the first post of this series I highlighted and described two stored procedures that are shipped from Microsoft. These...
2010-05-05
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Table Sizes
In SQL Server there are two stored procedures that help one to determine the size of a table. One is...
2010-05-03
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Marathon Schedule
Finally I am putting down to paper my marathon race list for this season. Some of my favorite races are...
2010-04-30
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BLOB Index Columns
For the April T-SQL Tuesday, I blogged about a report to find information on the BLOBs in a database. I...
2010-04-27
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Index Stats Duplication
I came across a recent posting about seeing multiple entries in sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats for the same index. This kind of behavior...
2010-04-22
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SQL 2008 R2
Really short post here. I just found out that Stacia Misner (blog |blog 2 | @StaciaMisner) and Ross Mistry have released...
2010-04-21
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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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How Long is a Long I/O?
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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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