Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-28
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Bad Admins: Taking Advantage of Maintenance Periods
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-25
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Bad Admins: Stealing the SQL Server Service Account
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-22
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Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials, Part II
In a previous post I gave suggestions on how to get speaking credentials for consideration at a larger event, such...
2011-07-21
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Bad Admins: Pocketing Backups
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-21
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Bad Admins: Stealing An Account
Yesterday I posted about manipulating group membership to get access to a SQL Server. Today comes attack vector #2: stealing an...
2011-07-14
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Bad Admins: Attacking via Group Membership
This is a series of blog posts about how administrators can gain access to SQL Server, even if you try...
2011-07-13
1,875 reads
Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials
One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...
2011-06-16
1,890 reads
Speaking at the 2011 PASS Summit
The emails came in today and 2 out of 4 of my sessions were selected. Both are the ones I...
2011-06-15
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Planning Your Upgrade Well
Yesterday I talked about the importance of having a tested business recovery plan. If you didn't read yesterday's post, the...
2011-06-07
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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?
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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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