Participate in the PASS Election Process
Once again it is time for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors election. This year there...
2012-09-26
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
The Reason I Won't Be at the PASS Summit This Year
We welcomed daughter #3 and child #5 into this world on Saturday at 9:43 AM. She came a bit earlier...
2012-09-24
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PASS ProfDev VC presentation recording available
Back on August 15th I did a webinar for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter on my talk Being the...
2012-09-10
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An important query to remember
This is based on a post with respect to where our focus and efforts should be that I wrote at...
2012-08-30
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Don't Disconnect Your Common Sense
This falls in line with a previous post about common sense in IT.
I was having lunch with a co-worker,...
2012-08-23
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Delaying AV Definitions?
Auto-deploying AV definitions has become common place throughout the industry. However, this post from the SANS Internet Storm Center raises the...
2012-08-21
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Resources for Those Dealing with Security Patches
It's been a while since I was in the day-to-day business of security patches. However, I still keep up with...
2012-08-24 (first published: 2012-08-21)
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Rant: Applying Common Sense in IT
I was watching a training video last night and the instructor made the statement we hear all the time:
"Test this...
2012-08-23 (first published: 2012-08-17)
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PowerShell Saturday in Charlotte, NC
If you are in or around the Charlotte, NC area, there is a PowerShell Saturday coming your way on September...
2012-08-15
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Speaking Tomorrow for Professional Development VC
As I blogged about previously, tomorrow (Wednesday) I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will...
2012-08-14
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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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