MCM Live Blog – Week January 3
Watching videos?! Su-ure!
Surprisingly it’s now my fourth week of blogging about the things that I’m doing to study for the...
2011-01-04
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Blog Posts
MCM Prep - Only ONE Transaction Log File
Unlike for data files, SQL Server does not use multiple files for the transaction log in any way that improves...
2011-01-04
777 reads
MCM Prep – Only ONE Transaction Log File
Unlike for data files, SQL Server does not use multiple files for the transaction log in any way that improves...
2011-01-04
787 reads
MCM Prep - Sliding the test
If you can’t cram enough for the test, what’s the thing to do? Slide the test. I realized last night...
2011-01-04
767 reads
MCM Prep – Sliding the test
If you can’t cram enough for the test, what’s the thing to do? Slide the test. I realized last night...
2011-01-04
647 reads
Microsoft DreamSpark for Students
If you are a college or high school student, you can get a very valuable assortment of free software from...
2011-01-04
1,304 reads
MockingJay – a review
After a long wait, I have finally read the final installment in the “Hunger Games” trilogy. I read the other two books earlier in the year in 2010 and...
2011-01-04
6 reads
MockingJay – a review
After a long wait, I have finally read the final installment in the “Hunger Games” trilogy. I read the other...
2011-01-04
581 reads
My 2010 Year in Review
While in Cincinnati for the first time since September of 2007, I heard on several occasions that I work too...
2011-01-04
393 reads
My 2011 Aspirations
Yesterday, I posted a blog about my year in review for 2010. So, I thought that it would be a...
2011-01-04
439 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...
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,...
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?
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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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