Speaking in Columbia and Charlotte Next Week
I'm speaking at two user groups next week.
Tuesday - Midlands PASS - May 14
I'll be giving a presentation on PowerShell to help...
2013-05-10
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
I'm Giving a SQL Server Security Webinar on May 9, 2013
On May 9, 2013, at 3 PM EDT I will be presenting on 5 Steps Every DBA Should Take to...
2013-05-07
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2013 Carolina Code Camp Presentations
As promised, here are the presentations and sample code I used at the 2013 Carolina Code Camp. If you attended...
2013-05-06
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Speaking at the 2013 Carolina Code Camp
On Saturday, May 4, the Enterprise Developers Guild in Charlotte will hold their annual Carolina Code Camp. There's a number...
2013-04-23
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Error 15517
Last week I had the following error message repeating over and over again in the SQL Server log of one of...
2018-03-21 (first published: 2013-04-22)
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T-SQL Tuesday #41: How I Got My Start in Presenting
For this month's T-SQL Tuesday, Bob challenges us to discuss how we came to love presenting. Here's my story.
I developed a...
2013-04-19 (first published: 2013-04-09)
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Don't Alienate Your Customer
This should go without saying, because most of us have been on the receiving end of poor customer support. However,...
2013-04-05
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of April 1, 2013
Here are some training events you might be interested in for the coming week:
Tuesday, April 2
11:00-12:00 EDT, Introduction to SQL...
2013-03-29
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Security: People Are the Weakest Link
There was an interesting conversation on Twitter today about security awareness and why the training so often fails. From my perspective, here's...
2013-04-05 (first published: 2013-03-28)
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What to Do When You Can't Wipe an Infected System
When it comes to workstations within most organizations, the solution when one gets infected is to wipe it and re-image...
2013-03-27
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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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