An Appeal to Those Writing Training Documentation and Labs
I'm coming to the end of a week of training in a Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) Course. I should expect...
2011-04-08
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
On Leadership - Lead by Example
This is the second part of a leadership series I started with On Leadership - Lead from the Front. To recap...
2011-04-07
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SQL PASS ERC: How to Score the Interview?
One of the topics the Election Review Committee has discussed is how best to score the interview portion. Because of...
2011-04-06
1,356 reads
SQL Injection: It's not just about your data
On the topic of my SQL Connections SQL Server presentation, one of the things I pointed out about recent SQL...
2011-04-06
1,106 reads
Epsilon Data Breach and Staying Safe
By now, you may have received an email from one of the larger businesses you've given your email address to...
2011-04-05
759 reads
A SQL Story in Eleven Words or Less
Tom LaRock (blog | twitter) proposed a Meme Monday and his first choice of topics was to write a SQL Server...
2011-04-04
700 reads
Isolating SQL Server from other systems
In a recent explanation about the RSA breach, Rick Wanner wrote on the Internet Storm Center (ISC) Diary:
The traditional paradigm...
2011-04-04
2,148 reads
Reflections on Dev Connections / SQL Connections
When SQL Connections in the spring was announced, the folks at Red Gate and SQL Server Central reached out to...
2011-04-01
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Presenting with a Mac
My name is Brian Kelley and I used to be a PC bigot. That was back in 1989. I was...
2011-03-31
1,571 reads
Improving Meetings
Most folks I know hate meetings. They especially hate meetings about meetings. Recently I was working with a developer who...
2011-03-30
2,097 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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