Daily Coping 10 Sep 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-09-10
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Blog Posts
Goal Progress for August 2021
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2021. I’m late in putting this out, but here goes. Current...
2021-09-10
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The sysname datatype defaults to not NULL.
The other day I was creating a table to store some metadata. Since the metadata I was collecting (sys.databases.name for ... Continue reading
2021-09-10 (first published: 2021-08-26)
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Daily Coping 9 Sep 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-09-09
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Remote Desktop: Force the resolution to match the screen size.
One of the things I hate most about using remote desktop is when the resolution for the remote server is ... Continue reading
2021-09-09
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Timeseries Analytics Capabilities, and Azure Data Explorer (ADX)
I've had a few recent conversations where customers/partners were encountering scale concerns in existing timeseries database applications hosted outside of Azure, and wished to explore the native services in...
2021-09-09 (first published: 2021-08-24)
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CDOT Bar Chart Makeover
As I was browsing Twitter today, I noticed a tweet from the Colorado Department of Transportation about their anti-DUI campaign. Shown below, it contains a bar chart that appears...
2021-09-08 (first published: 2021-08-19)
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Daily Coping 8 Sep 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-09-08
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Why you need a Dead Man’s Switch
Right off the top here, I must note that the term “dead man’s switch” is archaic, so for the rest of this post I’ll refer to it as “operator...
2021-09-08
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Auditing with “C2 Auditing” and “Common Criteria Compliance”
I’m going to be fairly high level on these because to be honest, if you are going to use them ... Continue reading
2021-09-07
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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...
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Having Issue deploying a report to an on prem server from PowerBI desktop
Using PowerBI Version1.25.9508.3237(January 2026). Installed Microsoft Power BI Desktop (Optimized for Power BI Report...
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
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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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