Writing Better Emails
In January 2009, I made the transition back to being a senior DBA. One of the first things my manager...
2011-05-04
2,929 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
How often do you check email?
If you read the experts, most folks check their emails too many times during the day. Today, while giving a...
2011-05-03
794 reads
Love What You Do
I've been dealing with illness the last few weeks, probably due to the rather heavy pollen season here in South...
2011-04-29
1,543 reads
SQL University: Who has access to my SQL Server?
Welcome to PowerShell Week #2 for SQL University! One of the frequent questions I hear is, "Who has access to...
2011-04-26
2,789 reads
If a web page asks you to update Adobe Flash Player
You don't want to do so from that web page. Instead you want to go to the Adobe web site...
2011-04-22
1,123 reads
Why having two accounts is a good thing
Today on Twitter a friend of mine posted that the AV on his SQL Server flagged two trojans that were...
2011-04-22
700 reads
Evaluating my SQL Connection Scores
This evening I received my SQL Connection scores for the following presentations:
Windows Internals for DB ProsFrom the Ramparts: Knowing What...
2011-04-20
1,477 reads
Cain does LSA Secrets dump on Vista and higher now
Since going back to being a senior DBA, I've not stayed on top of the latest tools like I did...
2011-04-19
2,079 reads
"What's the point?"
This is a crucial question with regards to what needs to be done. It really hit home after listening to...
2011-04-18
809 reads
It's not about whether you're a consultant or full-time staff...
There's an article that's making its way through the SQL Ranks: Consultants are pros, while corporate IT staff are minor...
2011-04-12
1,335 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...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...
Question of the Day
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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