Happy New Year
Well it’s Friday again and another big day.
Hopefully you all had a great Christmas and as we move to...
2010-12-31
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Blog Posts
Quick MCM Prep Help
Before I went on vacation, I mentioned I was downloading some of the MCM videos from Technet.I had grabbed 4...
2010-12-31
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The Year of Change: 2010 In Review
Like clockwork, another year has come and (almost) gone. It’s been a wild year on many fronts: major happenings included...
2010-12-31
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Windows Cluster Scripting with WMI and PowerShell
Windows 2008 R2 includes a failoverclusters PowerShell module, but you’ll probably find normal usage limiting for several reasons:
Only works on...
2010-12-31
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Within the...
2010-12-31
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2010 PASS Summit Interviews
It’s entirely fair to say that the highlight of my professional year is the PASS Summit in Seattle, and the...
2010-12-30
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Can You Dig It? – StmtSimple Element
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittWe’re up to the seventh post on the in the plan cache series. This time...
2010-12-30
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Looking Back at 2010
I’m writing this the day before Xmas, trying to finish up a bunch of odd tasks before the holiday weekend...
2010-12-30
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MCM Prep - VLF Allocations
I had heard that you could have too many VLFs in your transaction log, and it could cause performance issues....
2010-12-30
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Reviewing My 2010 Goals
You can go over my goals here. I’ve really hesitated to do this post because, in my opinion, I did so poorly. Here’s what I did: Community ...
2010-12-30
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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,...
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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