A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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Blog Posts
A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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Career: Talk To References
As we try to get through these strange times in the world, I am starting to see a bit more career movement in 2021 than I saw for much...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-14)
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Daily Coping 21 May 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...
2021-05-21
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Encryption in SQL Server #1 – Column Level Encryption
For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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SQL Server Collations: What does “CP1” mean in “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”?
(last updated: 2021-05-31 @ 19:00 EST / 2021-05-31 @ 23:00 UTC ) Many of us that work with Microsoft SQL Server, especially those of us working on systems with...
2021-05-21
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Daily Coping 20 May 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...
2021-05-20
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Testing for Specific Versions of TLS Protocols Using curl
Ever need to set your web server a specific protocol version of TLS for web servers and need a quick way to test that out to confirm? Let’s check...
2021-05-20
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Daily Coping 19 May 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...
2021-05-19
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Don’t Stop at Just Enabling Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI)
This past week I had a great Client ask an even greater question, and it got me thinking. The question is straightforward (albeit nerdy, which I love). “We’ve enabled...
2021-05-19 (first published: 2021-05-10)
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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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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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