Fusion-io, Flash NAND All You Can Eat
Fusion-io has announced general availability of the new Octal. This card is the largest single flash based device I’ve ever...
2010-11-19
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Blog Posts
I Don't Worry about My Brand
And I guess the experts would say that I probably should. I know that the professional development presentations by Steve...
2010-11-19
1,817 reads
Off to the Big Apple
I’m heading to New York today, off for SQL Saturday #59. Another travel day, but I am looking forward to...
2010-11-19
790 reads
SQL Services on Laptop
I run several SQL Server instances on my laptop, however I’ll keep the services shutdown to conserve resources and then...
2010-11-19
408 reads
Un-SQL Friday: Branding
So looks like we have another blog party on our hands, this time courtesy of Jen McCown (Blog | Twitter), one...
2010-11-19
1,843 reads
Un-SQL Friday: Branding?
Following in Midnight DBA’s more interesting half new blog fest topic.
My branding? I don’t have a clue. There, I said...
2010-11-19
662 reads
Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free?
I know I do!
The trick is to properly manage your VLFs.
What are VLFs? The short anser is that VLF...
2010-11-19
2,206 reads
XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Let’s talk...
2010-11-19
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I am a Risk Taker
Somewhat of a strange title, but it’s been an interesting journey to understand that I do take risks and to...
2010-11-18
564 reads
Part of the Election Review Committee...
... and I'm wary, but not weary. I'm not weary because I'm looking forward to trying to help. I'm not weary...
2010-11-18
1,140 reads
Blogs
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,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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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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