Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book?
At the beginning of this year, my introductory text to SQL Server, appropriately titled Introduction to SQL Server, became available for sale....
2011-09-19
1,325 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Looking to interact with those proficient in Japanese
In the 1970s my mother and her younger sister married U.S. Marines. Both came to the States when their husbands...
2011-09-12
788 reads
Don't Wait to Start Blogging
I was reading a post by Jonathan Fields (blog | twitter) about making bad guitars. Okay, so what does that have to...
2011-08-15
2,252 reads
Have the Time? Get in the Game.
This year there's a two step process for electing members to the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors...
2011-08-11
883 reads
T-SQL Tuesday/Wednesday #21: A Crappy Workaround
A long time ago (in IT terms) in a galaxy far, far away I was helping an organization with a...
2011-08-10
2,066 reads
Functionality and User Experience are important, too
There are a few posts and articles around the security-scape lately concluding Windows 7 is more secure than OS X,...
2011-08-09
814 reads
Security Is Your Responsibility
My primary responsibility at my organization is no longer to be the security architect and incident response team lead. I...
2011-08-08
950 reads
MSSQLTips.com Kindle Contest
I'm always wary of contests to win free stuff, but the folks running MSSQLTips.com are legitimate (I write there as...
2011-08-04
1,043 reads
Rant: Security Isn't Sexy and It's a Shame
I grew up immersed in security. My father was a US Marine and going on and off base meant... security....
2011-08-03
1,232 reads
Bad Network Performance? Check the TCP Chimney Offload/Receive Side-Scaling/Network DMA Settings
We recently ran into a case where connecting to a Windows Server 2003 server with SQL Server installed on it,...
2011-08-02
15,668 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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