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Find Index Create Date

This article shows a quick script to help determine indexes that were created recently. This script will help you out of rough spot and help reduce the chance of...

2019-12-25

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Find Index Create Date

This article shows a quick script to help determine indexes that were created recently. This script will help you out of rough spot and help reduce the chance of...

2019-12-25

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A Quick Look at Travel

I was experimenting with visualizations the other day, and started playing with SandDance, a tool from Microsoft that you can use in Power BI or Azure Data Studio. I’ll...

2019-12-24 (first published: )

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A gift. T-SQL Tuesday #121

My good friend Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and wants us to talk about Gifts received ... Continue reading

2019-12-23 (first published: )

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Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop

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How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift

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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

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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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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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