Audit Yourself Regularly
Around April this year, my men's accountability group was talking about a shared pain: income taxes. We were all worried...
2012-08-13
1,706 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Speaking for PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter
This coming Wednesday I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will be on my...
2012-08-10
2,118 reads
Don't Use Passwords That Can Be Social-Engineered
A Facebook thread by one of my friends brought this one to mind. He was asking about what the current...
2012-08-09
1,948 reads
Learn to Use Books Online
One of the first questions I hear from folks wanting to grow in their Microsoft SQL Server DBA or database developer...
2012-08-06
2,179 reads
Stop Storing Unencrypted Passwords!
I was called over today by a person doing application support to help troubleshoot a database connectivity issue. This isn't a...
2012-07-30 (first published: 2012-07-26)
2,746 reads
Cross-Post: Set Milestones for Little Victories
This seemed appropriate to cross-post from Goal Keeping DBA given the editorial for today:
One of the first pieces of advice...
2012-07-25
1,094 reads
Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meeting tonight
If you're in or around the Midlands of South Carolina area, the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meets the 2nd Wednesday...
2012-07-11
953 reads
A Busy Week of Speaking
I'm hitting 3 venues in 5 days giving 4 different talks. If you plan on making one of these, I'd...
2012-06-07
1,051 reads
Sorry, Mikko, the box was already open
In a blog post F-Secure's Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), indicated that with the US participating in cyberattacks...
2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)
2,387 reads
After August, I'm Done Traveling for the Year
I mentioned in a post over at my Goal Keeping DBA blog that I was not planning to attend the...
2012-05-31
2,109 reads
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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