SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 8 Released
Microsoft has releasedSQL Server 2008 SP1 CU8 (Build 2775). There is no corresponding CU for the RTM branch of SQL...
2010-05-18
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Master Class – London June 17th
The top things YOU need to know about managing SQL Server – in one place, on one day – presented by two...
2010-05-18
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Will People Use This?
The cost of making a trip differently in the US, in terms of time, effort, and driving habits, is small....
2010-05-18
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5 Features SQL Server Doesn’t Need
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) started this chain of blog posts with his post, What 5 Things Should SQL Server Get Rid...
2010-05-17
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 8
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-17
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Free ebooks
From Barnes and Noble. You can get them on a Nook, Blackberry, iPhone/Ipad, or PC. They are offering a few...
2010-05-17
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It's Free, It's Non-Stop, It's 24 Hrs of PASS
Yea, it's FREE, it's NoN-Stop, it's 24 hours of PASS! Many of the bloggers have wrote about 24 Hrs of...
2010-05-17
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LiveMeeting is Still Harder Than Live Meetings!
On Thursday I presented ‘Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan’ to the PASS Professional Development Chapter (#PASSProfDev on Twitter) via...
2010-05-17
719 reads
PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 0
Welcome to PowerShell Week at SQL University. For regulars at SQLvariant, SQL University is something Jorge Segarra organized to get...
2010-05-17
1,057 reads
Some Data Compression Commands for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
One of the more interesting and valuable features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (and Datacenter Edition) is data...
2010-05-17
497 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?
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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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