Who said that breaking up is hard to do?
Some of you younger DBA’s out there may not know who Neil Sedaka is or remember his poignant words "Breaking...
2007-07-03
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Blog Posts
Working Remotely
Most people I know tend to work in one of two places consistently: work or home. So they've built a...
2007-07-03
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Earthquake
This is pretty cool, a, earthquake test for Project Black Box from Sun. They take one of their systems to...
2007-07-01
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SQL Server Error Logs
The active SQL Server error log is one of the first places people look when there is a problem. For...
2007-06-29
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The War Begins :: Reporting for duty
No, I'm not going to keep making corny references to war and being a soldier. But in many ways, we...
2007-06-29
1,338 reads
Walking the Line
I have the best job here at SQLServerCentral.com. I work from home, I get to be creative, writing about what...
2007-06-28
1,374 reads
Debugging Stored Procedures in VS 2005
My friend and former co-worker Chris Rock just posted at article over at SQLTeam.com that has a pretty good walk...
2007-06-27
1,369 reads
Back to Work (Some days it flows)
My job here at SQLServerCentral.com is mainly as editor. This means that for the most part I edit articles, schedule...
2007-06-20
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Celko Cites Steve Jones
I'm at the bookstore today alternating some work with some professional development time and was reading some of Celko's SQL...
2007-06-20
1,416 reads
Keep a Spare
I wanted to get working on Katmai a little, but not being brave and seeing the release notes that it...
2007-06-20
1,357 reads
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...
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,...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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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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