What’s Going On at Microsoft?
Last week Donald
Farmer announced that he was leaving his long-time position as Microsoft’s lead
BI technology evangelist for QlikTech, a small...
2011-01-11
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Blog Posts
31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31)
A few months back, well before the 31 Days of SSIS started, I had been playing with the Pivot Transformation. ...
2011-01-10
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DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open
The recently resurrected DevTeach/SQLTeach event will be held May 31 through June 2, 2011 in Montreal, Canada at the Montreal...
2011-01-10
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Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008
Most technical professionals don’t seem to enjoy writing and maintaining documentation for their databases. I know that documentation falls pretty...
2011-01-10
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How SQL Server stores indexes on variable length columns
In the last months I had done a lot of performance tuning workshops, and there is
almost the same question: How...
2011-01-10
2,372 reads
My First Sandy Bridge Desktop System
I was standing in line at the Denver Micro Center at 11AM this morning (despite the beginnings of a small...
2011-01-10
1,398 reads
PASSMN Call for Presenters and Sponsors
Before the year gets going too far and things are too planned out, I thought I would see if there...
2011-01-10
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I’ll be presenting: Why I Use Stored Procedures With the...
2011-01-10
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I’ll be presenting:
Why I Use Stored Procedures
With the proliferation...
2011-01-10
772 reads
SQLBits Will be Held in Brighton England in April
SQLBits, the largest SQL Server conference is Europe, will be held this April 7-9, 2011 in Brighton, England at the...
2011-01-10
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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...
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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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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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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