Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-09-26
1,418 reads
Blog Posts
Cheap Vacation/Travel Books
As you've probably noticed via the blog I read a lot; technical, fiction, and non-fiction. Reading can be an expensive...
2008-09-25
1,718 reads
Prometheus
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-09-25
1,587 reads
SQL Server 2008 (Verisoni i ri RTM)
Pershendetje te gjithve...edhe perkunder voneses se postimeve te njepasnjeshme ne blog si duket deri me tani jeni njoftuar te gjithe...
2008-09-25
1,823 reads
Laptops Part 2
EarlierI mused a bit about when and why it makes sense to upgrade to a new laptop. One note I...
2008-09-24
2,028 reads
DLP Technology
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-09-23
1,533 reads
Facebook - I'm on it
I've never really gotten the social site thing. I don't get the appeal of Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, MySpace, etc., beyond...
2008-09-23
1,628 reads
First Time Attendees At User Groups
Several years ago during the first iteration of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group I talked a friend into attending....
2008-09-23
1,837 reads
WSUS 3.0 - Query to Return Systems That Haven't Checked in Within the Week
I've been playing with WSUS lately and I've been less than satisfied with the reporting. Since the information I need...
2008-09-23
1,109 reads
Mechanical Blog Posts
Mechanical posts are ones that are either auto-generated, or manually input with no real additional work put into them - an example...
2008-09-22
1,045 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...
Forums
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...
T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...
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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