SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools
Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...
2020-04-06
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday Live–7 Apr 2020
Last week went a little crazy, and I learned something: don’t post a Zoom link on Twitter. My apologies to anyone that wanted to join and had things go...
2020-04-06
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Understanding Disk Performance and IOPS in cloud platform
In the past many years, apart from working as DBA, I was working with multiple cloud technologies and actively involved in the migration process to cloud infrastructure. In between,...
2020-04-06 (first published: 2020-03-29)
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What Prevents You From Securing Your Servers?
Reading about how hackers are using SQL Server instances that are exposed on the internet AND have weak passwords to work into systems, I’m sitting here wondering why. I...
2020-04-06
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Disks performance in Azure
In our earliest post, we have discussed in detail about the factors that affect the disk performance and different types of disk offerings in the AWS platform. In this...
2020-04-05
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Covid Thoughts, So Far
I’ve gathered a bunch of notes from conversations and time reflecting, thought I’d write them down to at least be able to look back at them once the storm...
2020-04-04
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Daily Coping–3 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-03
25 reads
Data Céilí 2020 Cancelled
Yesterday we announced that Data Céilí 2020 has been cancelled due to the continuing threat of COVID-19. As much as we wanted to put this event on, the safety...
2020-04-03
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How to Think Like a Certification Exam at the PASS Professional Development Virtual Group
Thanks for the 90+ who joined today's PASS Professional Development Virtual Group webinar on Certification Exams Inside Out: How to Think Like a Certification Exam! This was a lot of...
2020-04-03
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Living with Bipolar During a Pandemic
Introduction Today is World Bipolar Day. I wanted to write a blog about my experience with bipolar to help others that have mental health challenges know that aren’t alone...
2020-04-03 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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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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