Do IF statements cause recompiles?
I heard this one over at SSC a while back. “Avoid IF statements in stored procedures as they result in...
2010-12-14
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Blog Posts
Group Level Page Numbering using Reporting Services 2008 R2
Using SQL Server Reporting Services, we have always had the ability to use the built in fields (the Globals collection)...
2010-12-14
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Notes from Mirroring Deep Dive Session with Mohammed Sharaf: Microsoft Premier Engineer (I can never learn enough about Mirroring :)
One thing I have gotten wrong before, or not elaborated on during a past presentation on mirroring, although Roman Rehak mentioned...
2010-12-14
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Soft Skills Matter More Than You Think
Over my career I’ve seen interviews fall into three categories:
The technical part. Questions on trace flags, wait states, backups, etc,...
2010-12-14
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2010)
I have been quite the slacker (by my usual standards) for blogging over the past few weeks, but my excuse...
2010-12-14
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SQL Server Hardware Book
One reason (besides laziness) that I have been fairly light on my blogging lately is that I have been working...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements
I think a common area that is easily overlooked when it comes to requirements and interpretation of requirements is report creation. A common problem is that there are no...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements
Business Requirements
We have made it yet another month and to yet another episode in the continuing saga known as TSQL...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 - What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
So this month’s blog party is being held by non-other than Steve Jones (blog|@Way0utwest) of SQL Server Central fame. This...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Steve Jones (blog | twitter) and the topic he proposes is: "What issues have you...
2010-12-14
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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
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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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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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