Thoughts on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit as an Attendee
Last week was the first PASS Virtual Summit. This was the first time that the event wasn’t held in a live setting, and this was the third conference for...
2020-11-18
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Blog Posts
[Solved] SQL Backup Detected Corruption in the Database Log
Summary: In this article, we will discuss about the ‘SQL Backup Detected Corruption in the Database Log’ error. It will also describe the reason behind the error and manual...
2020-11-17 (first published: 2020-11-06)
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Daily Coping 17 Nov 2020
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...
2020-11-17
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Reflections on PASS Virtual Summit 2020
PASS Summit 2020 has wrapped up (or is in the process of wrapping up), and as with years past, I’m getting this written while the experience is still fresh...
2020-11-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #132 Pandemic Coping
This year, 2020, has been crazy. What started as a normal year for me, including a sabbatical, turned into a crazy, shutdown, lockdown, stuck at home pandemic around the...
2020-11-17 (first published: 2020-11-10)
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Daily Coping 16 Nov 2020
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...
2020-11-16
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Deploy SSRS Projects with Two New PowerShell Commands
I built two new PowerShell commands to deploy SSRS projects, and they have finally been merged into the ReportingServicesTools module. The commands are Get-RsDeploymentConfig & Publish-RsProject. While the Write-RsFolderContent...
2020-11-16 (first published: 2020-11-11)
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Export SQL Server Configurations for DR purposes
Is your SQL environment prepared for a disaster? There are big and small disasters and depending on your perspective big and small can mean different things. Preparing your environment...
2020-11-16 (first published: 2020-11-10)
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SQLpassion Black Friday Deal 2020
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2020-11-16
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Notes on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit – Part 6
Mostly Friday notes here. This morning I was the moderator for Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps by Steve Jones. The way the Summit worked this year...
2020-11-14
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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...
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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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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