Two Profiler Tips
I’ve had occasion to watch a lot of people try Profiler, and to hear a lot more about their previous...
2011-01-27
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Blog Posts
31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Tables (25/31)
31 Days of SSIS
One day at a time and we have reached the twenty-fifth post in the 31 Days of...
2011-01-26
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A SQL Azure Customer
Not me, though I’m not necessarily against Azure in principle. I had a friend ask me for a SQL Server...
2011-01-26
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Immersion in Internals
Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) and Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter) of SQLSkills are hosting an Immersions training event in Dallas. This is not run of the mill training, but it...
2011-01-26
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Immersion in Internals
Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) and Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter) of SQLSkills are hosting an Immersions training event in Dallas. This is not...
2011-01-26
974 reads
Presenting on #SSIS to EDMPASS Today
Will you be in Edmonton today? How about near a computer connected to the inter-tubes? If so, you might be...
2011-01-26
784 reads
Shameless Plug: My First SSC Article Published Today
Please forgive the shameless plug. My first article was published today on sqlservercentral.com. It’s titled “Backup and Housekeeping with Maintenance...
2011-01-26
554 reads
SQL Saturday #71: Call For Speakers
The SQL Saturday #71/New England Data Camp #3 call for speakers has been open for quite a while. But, we...
2011-01-26
1,030 reads
SQLSaturday 57 In Houston, Here I Come!
Another year and staring it off right! I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday in Houston, TX on the fundamentals of storage...
2011-01-26
943 reads
User Group Giveaway: My Latest Book
As I annouced earlier, Oracle and database expert, Bert Scalzo and I collaborated on an introductory text appropriately titled Introduction to SQL...
2011-01-26
704 reads
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...
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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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