SQLServerCentral.com Track at SQL Server Has Record Attendance
This past week, November 3-4, the SQLServerCentral.com track at SQL Server Connections has a record 431 attendees. Below are some...
2010-11-06
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Blog Posts
1-Week to PASS Summit 2010 – After Hours
Final post for the countdown – a little later in the week than I wanted. Right now there is less than...
2010-11-05
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A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database
There are a handful of scripts out there to compress all of of the objects in your SQL 2008 database...
2010-11-05
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 8, 2010
Tuesday
PASS - Day One Opening Keynote (Ted Kummert) Live Stream
Wednesday
PASS - Day Two Keynote (Quentin Clark) Live Stream
PASS - Women in Technology Luncheon...
2010-11-05
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How Stale Are My Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-05
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Live Streaming Keynotes From PASS Summit 2010
I just wanted to help spread the word that the PASS Summit Keynotes will be streamed live via LiveMeeting next...
2010-11-05
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My PASS Summit 2010 Schedule
The 2010 PASS Summit is a few days away and my schedule has gone from wide open to booked solid!...
2010-11-05
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My Schedule for the PASS 2010 Summit
I’m doing the final and somewhat hectic work of preparing for the trip to Seattle for the PASS Summit. It’ll...
2010-11-05
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PASS Summit Sunday Night Dinner & Meetup
Earlier this week I posted the announcement about an informal get together on Sunday night November 7th for those arriving...
2010-11-05
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PASSMN 2011 Board of Directors
For the third year in a row, we’ve had a blockbuster PASSMN Board of Directors election. By that, I mean...
2010-11-05
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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?
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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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