Mic Check
Is this thing on? If you’re reading this test post, it means DNS has updated properly and I’ve successfully migrated to Azure Static Web Sites. Welcome!
2022-05-10
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Blog Posts
My First Technical Job: T-SQL Tuesday #150
It’s that time of the month again for a T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month is hosted by Kenneth Fisher, who has hosted a few times in the past....
2022-05-10
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My job managing a calling list. : T-SQL Tuesday #150
I’m actually hosting this month and I was wondering about your first technical job. Mine was kind of interesting. I ... Continue reading
2022-05-10
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Daily Coping 9 May 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...
2022-05-09
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Database Design for Tracking Solar Production
We had a solar system installed at our house this year. I’m excited to see how this performs, as our estimates and research shows this ought to be a...
2022-05-09 (first published: 2022-04-27)
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Friend of Redgate 2022
I am honored and humbled to be chosen to be part of the Friend of RedGate program for another year. This program is near and dear to my heart, and I look forward...
2022-05-09
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Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Adding Guest Users to your Tenant
This is video three in a four-part series walking you through how to leverage the Microsoft Graph API within Power Automate. In this video, you
2022-05-09 (first published: 2022-05-03)
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security
My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here, or if...
2022-05-09
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security
My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here, or if...
2022-05-09
25 reads
Add Disk Performance Counters to Windows Task Manager
Have you ever wondered why Windows Server doesn’t show disk performance metrics in Task Manager, but your Windows 10/11 OS does? It’s a really silly difference. Let’s fix that....
2022-05-06 (first published: 2022-04-26)
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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
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...
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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