Something BIG in Boston - SQLSaturday#71
BIG in BOSTON
Last time, I blogged about the first upcoming event in the North East in Philadelphia, PA – SQLSaturday#69, but...
2011-02-02
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Blog Posts
Work Isn’t the Most Important Thing
I had quite an adventure today, away from work. We had a pipe freeze in the house, a sick kid,...
2011-02-02
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24 Hours of PASS Sessions Announced
In case you missed it last week, PASS has announced the speaker lineup for the next 24 Hours of PASS. ...
2011-02-01
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31 Days of SSIS – SSIS Naming Conventions (31/31)
31 Days of SSIS
We’re at the thirty-first, and last, post for the 31 Days of SSIS. The series started with...
2011-02-01
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February Question: Share with us your “best” restore disaster stories.
As DBAs, making backups and restoring data is one of the foundational skills we all must master. But sometimes things...
2011-02-01
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Is a clustered index best for range queries?
I see a lot of advice that talks about the clustered index been the best index for use for range...
2011-02-01
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PASS Update #51-Summit Site Selection
In November/December HQ requested that the Board to send in suggestions for possible sites for the 2013 PASS Summit. I...
2011-02-01
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SQL Rally BI Sessions
This week the voting for the SQL Rally BI track went out, and I wanted to send a quick reminder...
2011-02-01
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This Month… SSWUG Free SSIS Expo
Stinking Feet?
A couple months back I mentioned the SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features. The time has...
2011-02-01
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What’s a Passive Server?
Licensing software is often a more complicated process than I think it should be. Licensing database software seems to be...
2011-02-01
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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...
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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