SQLServerPedia Award Nomination
I thought this week was going to be pretty low key. SQL Saturday 58 has wrapped up. The PASS Summit...
2010-11-04
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Blog Posts
What’s in a Full Backup?
I got asked a question today that I though was quite interesting. If my backup starts at 6pm and it...
2010-11-04
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A Couple of SQL Lunches this Week
I want to apologize for posting this so late, but there is a SQL Lunch today and one tomorrow. Hope...
2010-11-03
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Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today we get to talk about chapter 7 in...
2010-11-03
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Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today...
2010-11-03
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How To Participate In The PASS Summit When You Can't Be There
Bummed that you can't go to the PASS Summit in Seattle this year? Turn that frown upside down because there...
2010-11-03
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Kilt Day
A week from now will be Kilt Day at the PASS Summit. It’s probably way too late to order a...
2010-11-03
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MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public
Better pull out the excuse-o-meter
I have no excuse, none whatsoever.
In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server...
2010-11-03
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More PASS Summit Tips For First Timers
Yesterday I posted my tips for PASS Summit First Timers, and of course as soon as I did I remembered...
2010-11-03
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My PASS Summit Schedule
Several bloggers have posted what their plans are for the PASS Summit and I’m following suit for 2 reasons:
So people...
2010-11-03
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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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Half of All Engineers
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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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