Daily Coping 12 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-12
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Blog Posts
How to Fix the Error “MySQL is running but PID file could not be found”
One of our clients in Vietnam, his name is Son Vu, who is developing a website running on VPS (his homepage trainghiemmuasam.com) encountered an error that MySQL could not...
2022-08-12 (first published: 2022-08-01)
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Thank You Tim!
Ah, Tim Ford. I remember the time we were sitting at Ruth Kriss Steakhouse trying to figure out which of the two of us was the dumbest person in...
2022-08-12 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Daily Coping 11 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-11
12 reads
My Toolbox - Greenshot
Foreword
A picture is worth a thousand words. I use screenshots daily, whether it’s to share results, how-to tutorials, point out mistakes or create memes.
None of the tools I’ve tried...
2022-08-11
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VS Live Microsoft HQ Slides and Code
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions today at VS Live. I have my slides and code available for download at the VS Live site and here. The Serverless...
2022-08-11
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Daily Coping 10 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-10
16 reads
Power BI: Dynamically Removing Errors From Columns in M
If you have excel data, or user-entered data, you have likely experienced frustration from repeatedly seeing the error message below upon hitting “Close & Apply” or refreshing your data...
2022-08-10 (first published: 2022-07-19)
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Storing sp_BlitzIndex to a Table Between Reboots
I mentioned in my New Database Job – The 90 Day Plan blog how I have a trick for storing index usage stats up until close to the next reboot...
2022-08-10 (first published: 2022-07-19)
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T-SQL Tuesday 153: The Conference Changed Everything For Me
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about an...
2022-08-10
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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...
Forums
Having Issue deploying a report to an on prem server from PowerBI desktop
Using PowerBI Version1.25.9508.3237(January 2026). Installed Microsoft Power BI Desktop (Optimized for Power BI Report...
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?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
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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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